CDO settaxis quits with an error (unlike in earlier versions)
Added by Christian Stepanek over 8 years ago
I am using the settaxis-operator in order to add a time axis to gridded NetCDF data that does not yet have any time information attached. So far this worked without a problem:
CDO version 1.6.2:
cdo settaxis,1987-01-16,12:00:00,1mon input.nc output.nc
cdo settaxis: Processed 23040 values from 5 variables over 1 timestep ( 0.00s )
A newer CDO version now returns an error.
CDO version 1.6.8rc3:
cdo settaxis,1987-01-16,12:00:00,1mon input.nc output.nc
cdo settaxis (Abort): Integer parameter >1mon< contains invalid character at position 2!
I have taken the command and its parameters sign-by-sign from the documentation, version 1.6.9:
"Example
To set the time axis to 1987-01-16 12:00:00 with an increment of one month for each timestep use:
cdo settaxis,1987-01-16,12:00:00,1mon ifile ofile"
Did the syntax change - and this has not yet been documented - or did I maybe run into a bug? If it is a bug, has it been fixed in the newest version 1.6.9?
I could attach the header information of the NetCDF file that I would like to process, or the NetCDF file itself, if this is of help - but at least to me this seems to be rather a command parsing problem.
Thanks,
Christian
Replies (4)
RE: CDO settaxis quits with an error (unlike in earlier versions) - Added by Uwe Schulzweida over 8 years ago
Yes, this seems to be a bug in the CDO prerelease 1.6.8rc3. We have added a lot of parameter checks, and the check for this parameter was wrong.
This problem has been solved in CDO release 1.6.9.
RE: CDO settaxis quits with an error (unlike in earlier versions) - Added by Christian Stepanek over 8 years ago
Dear Uwe,
thanks a lot for the fast response and clarification of this issue.
Christian
RE: CDO settaxis quits with an error (unlike in earlier versions) - Added by Martin Dörenkämper over 8 years ago
Dear CDO Developers,
I have a very similar error as Christian with the CDO release 1.6.9:
cdo -f nc -t cosmo -rotuvb,10u,10v -remapbil,cosmode_gitter ifile ofile
This command was working with a previous CDO version but it fails with the newest version with the error message:
"cdo rotuvb (Abort): Integer parameter >10u< contains invalid character at position 3!"
Thanks,
Martin
RE: CDO settaxis quits with an error (unlike in earlier versions) - Added by Uwe Schulzweida over 8 years ago
Dear Martin,
Thanks for this information! I will fix this problem in the next CDO release.
Cheers,
Uwe