Hi Jon:
At the moment, all you can do is generate the coordinates yourself in the NcML,
following this section of the docs:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/v2.2/Aggregation.html#JoinExistingTypes
Otherwise we'll have to add a "request for enhancement" on dealing with join
coordinates whose units change. It would be helpful to have some datasets with this
problem for testing.
Regards,
John
Jon Blower wrote:
Dear all,
I've come across a problem when aggregating a dataset across the time
dimension using NcML and the latest (2.2.18) nj22 library. I would
like to aggregate a number of files, which represent timesteps of an
ocean forecast model (one timestep per file). I am aggregating using
an NcML file like this:
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation dimName="t" type="joinExisting">
<scan location="/path/to/files" suffix=".nc"/>
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
When reading this NcML file using NetcdfDataset.openDataset() I get an
aggregated dataset with the correct number of timesteps BUT all the
values along the time axis are the same.
After much head-scratching I think I've found the source of the
problem, but I don't have a solution. In each individual file, the
time dimension is specified with different units but the values remain
the same:
File 1: time units: seconds since 2007-02-06 00:00:00, value: 43200
File 2: time units: seconds since 2007-02-07 00:00:00, value: 43200
This seems to confuse the aggregation code, which I assume expects the
units to remain constant between files and the values to change.
Is there a solution or workaround for this? I don't control how the
netCDF files are made so I don't think I can change them. Any help
will be much appreciated.
Regards, Jon
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