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Generic Data Unsupported!

Added by Piyush Dahal over 4 years ago

Hello,

I received a model output netCDF data containing monthly groundwater and other related parameters. When I am trying to analyze this data in CDO it gives following error message

(Abort): No Lon/Lat, Gaussian or Lambert grid found (generic data unsupported)!

however, ncdump output of the data is as follows

ncdump -h HiGWMAT_WFDEI_TWS_2010_2016.nc

netcdf HiGWMAT_WFDEI_TWS_2010_2016 {
dimensions:
        lon = 720 ;
        lat = 360 ;
        tstep = 84 ;
variables:
        float LONGXY(lat, lon) ;
                LONGXY:units = "degrees_east" ;
                LONGXY:long_name = "longitude" ;
                LONGXY:mode = "time-invariant" ;
        float LATIXY(lat, lon) ;
                LATIXY:units = "degrees_north" ;
                LATIXY:long_name = "latitude" ;
                LATIXY:mode = "time-invariant" ;
        float GLSNW(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                GLSNW:units = "mm" ;
                GLSNW:long_name = "Snow Water Storage" ;
                GLSNW:valid_min = -652.14432255427 ;
                GLSNW:valid_max = 967.782470119287 ;
                GLSNW:mode = "time-dependent" ;
        float GW(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                GW:units = "mm" ;
                GW:long_name = "Groundwater Storage" ;
                GW:valid_min = -3481.84036975437 ;
                GW:valid_max = 4637.35731252035 ;
                GW:mode = "time-dependent" ;
        float TOTMODEL(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                TOTMODEL:units = "mm" ;
                TOTMODEL:long_name = "Terrestrial Water Storage" ;
                TOTMODEL:valid_min = -3426.93774303261 ;
                TOTMODEL:valid_max = 3280.74208058083 ;
                TOTMODEL:mode = "time-dependent" ;
        float gdriv(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                gdriv:units = "mm" ;
                gdriv:long_name = "River and Reservoir Storage" ;
                gdriv:valid_min = -3097.71149910821 ;
                gdriv:valid_max = 2159.46075736152 ;
                gdriv:mode = "time-dependent" ;
        float GLWC(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                GLWC:units = "mm" ;
                GLWC:long_name = "Canopy Water Storage" ;
                GLWC:valid_min = -1.09403525271369 ;
                GLWC:valid_max = 1.00970957375276 ;
                GLWC:mode = "time-dependent" ;
        float GLWSM(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                GLWSM:units = "mm" ;
                GLWSM:long_name = "Soil Water Storage" ;
                GLWSM:valid_min = -3473.60943773058 ;
                GLWSM:valid_max = 2961.72736295064 ;
                GLWSM:mode = "time-dependent" ;
        float GLWTOT(tstep, lat, lon) ;
                GLWTOT:units = "mm" ;
                GLWTOT:long_name = "Sub-surface Total Storage" ;
                GLWTOT:valid_min = -1462.63498263889 ;
                GLWTOT:valid_max = 1646.36593967014 ;
                GLWTOT:mode = "time-dependent" ;
}

how can I convert this file to the CDO readable format? I read some previous post related to generic grided data and tried to solve the problem as suggested but didn't get succeed.

Thank You,

Piyush


Replies (1)

RE: Generic Data Unsupported! - Added by Karin Meier-Fleischer over 4 years ago

Hi Piyush,

your data is not CF compliant. You have to add the coordinates attribute to the variables.

E.g. Variable GLWTOT

cdo -setattribute,GLWTOT@coordinates="LATIXY LONGXY"  HiGWMAT_WFDEI_TWS_2010_2016.nc  HiGWMAT_WFDEI_TWS_2010_2016_with_coordinates.nc

Maybe time, in your case tstep, can also cause problems because it isn't CF compliant too.

-Karin

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