mark,
john pointed out that the units values were not compatiable with the
udunits package in the metar.cdl. so i corrected the vars units in the
metar.cdl. attached is a modified cdl. now i have to check all the other
cdls in the decoders package to make sure those units are compatiable before
making a decoders release.
robb...
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, John Caron wrote:
> Robb Kambic wrote:
>
> >>>To: Unidata Support <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>From: "Mark J. Laufersweiler" <laufers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>Subject: decoders and IDV
> >>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >>>Keywords: 200502282237.j1SMb2v2020244
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>I am tryin to set up my DODS/ADDE/THREDDS server and have started
> >>with something simple to server up and so I figured I would start
> >>with the metars. But now I not sure what I doing wrong. When I run
> >>the idv on the created metart netcdf file I get:
> >>
> >>java -Xmx512m -jar idv.jar (wd: ~/idv)
> >>
> >>Couldn't decode unit attribute (0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8 Table 12-5) of
> >>variable "char_Ptend": Lexical error at line 1, column 2.
> >>Encountered: "|" (124), after : ""
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >hey mark,
> >
> >hope things are well with you. good support question, has all the facts.
> >i downloaded and tested your metar netcdf example file. it's in the
> >correct format so that's not the problem. i speculate that the problem is
> >in the netCDF API that the IDV is using to read the file, so i'm including
> >others in this response to get their opinions.
> >
> >the downloaded file is at:
> >
> >/upc/share/testdata/station/ldm-old/markMetar.nc
> >
> >robb...
> >
> >
> >
> the variable does not have legal udunits:
>
> int char_Ptend(recNum);
> :long_name = "Character Pressure tendency";
> :_FillValue = -99999; // int
> :units = "0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8 Table 12-5";
>
>
>
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Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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