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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"; > > > ============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ==============================================================================
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