Warning (cdfInqContents) : time variable not found!
Added by Anonymous over 13 years ago
Dear Ralf and All,
I would like to operate my netcdf data using cdo operator. But I got the error massage "Warning (cdfInqContents) : time variable not found!".
I used "ncdump -h test3.nc" to see my netcdf header file and I found that it have no "time" variable in my netcdf file.
How I could fix this problem?. Attached file is my netcdf file.
Could you please help me figure out this error?.
Thank you so much,
-Chakrit
Replies (4)
RE: Warning (cdfInqContents) : time variable not found! - Added by Ralf Mueller over 13 years ago
Hi,
your file does not contain a time variable, only a time dimension. Someting like this
double time(time) ; time:long_name = "time" ; time:units = "day since 1978-01-01 12:00:00" ; time:calendar = "gregorian" ;
should apear in you data. You might have a look at the CF-Convections for netcdf files, too.
regards
ralf
RE: Warning (cdfInqContents) : time variable not found! - Added by Ralf Mueller over 13 years ago
Seems to be a known problem of WRF data: http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/wrfnetcdf.shtml
RE: Warning (cdfInqContents) : time variable not found! - Added by Uwe Schulzweida over 13 years ago
The support for netCDF output from WRF model will be improved in the next CDO release, see #615.
The new CDO release will read your netCDF file without any changes, also if it is not fully conform to the CF netCDF convention
Regards,
Uwe
RE: Warning (cdfInqContents) : time variable not found! - Added by Anonymous over 13 years ago
Thank you Ralf and Uwe so much for your informations. You both alright, my data is WRF output file.
I would like to analyze wrf netcdf output by CDO. Unfortunately, I could not right now. However, I looking for the new CDO release which will read wrfout data file without any changes.
Regards,
Chakrit