Hi Bill,
Ferret accesses NetCDF files only via the OPeNDAP library, so the
question here is the status of OPeNDAP and 64-bit files. We build the
OPeNDAP libraries with a flag turned on to enable the netCDF 64-bit
capabilities (described here
http://opendap.org/download/nc-dods.html).
What version of Ferret are you running? Do you know any example files
on an opendap server somewhere that you might point me to for more
testing?
Ansley
Gustafson, William I wrote:
Hi,
Is there any way to get Ferret to read netCDF files that use the newer
64-bit format? I’m running into these files more lately and, as far as
I can tell, they currently cannot be read by Ferret. Some of the more
recent super computers, e.g. Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
default to the 64-bit format. Also, a change (scheduled to be committed
to the WRF repository this week) to the WRF atmospheric model will
start producing these files because large domain users have been
running into barriers with the older 32-bit format (I’m one of these
users :-) ).
If there is no work around, I would like to request that this feature
be added in one of the near term Ferret releases.
-Bill
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