Re: [ferret_users] change the pseudo variable name

[prescilla kurien <prescy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Drs. Paul and Sudheer:
Thank you very much for your kind suggestion.
The utilities of NCO (ncks and ncrename) worked well.
Now I can read the data!.
May thanks
Prescilla

On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 23:38 -0600, Paul Young wrote:
> Hi Prescilla,
> 
> You can refer to T by using quotation marks (can't remember whether  
> double or single, and can't find in the documentation at the mo). E.g.
> 
> fill/l=10/k=1 "T"
> 
> Of course, you can also rename the variable with nco operators (http://nco.sourceforge.net/ 
> ). E.g.
> 
> ncks -v T infile.nc just_T.nc   							!dump temperature from large file
> ncrename -v T,temperature just_T.nc					!rename T to temperature
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 11 May 2010, at 22:03, Prescilla wrote:
> 
> > Hi ferreters:
> > I am having a model out put of >2.7GB. The data is saved in netcdf  
> > format.
> > The variable for Temperature is specified with "T" in the data.  
> > Since T is a pseudo variable for time in ferret, I am getting an  
> > error message as below always.
> > fill/K=1/L=1 T
> > **ERROR: dimensions improperly specified: must be a 2D region
> >          CONTOUR/FILL/K=1/L=1 T
> > list/K=1:78/X=115/Y=115/L=1 T
> >             VARIABLE : T
> >                        axis ABSTRACT
> >             T        : 1
> >          1.000
> >
> > The list T gives the value of L which is equal to 1 in this case.
> >
> > list/K=1:78/X=115/Y=115/L=2 T
> >             VARIABLE : T
> >                        axis ABSTRACT
> >             T        : 2
> >          2.000
> > Here I get the value 2 since time is 2 (L=2) now
> >
> > Is there anyway to change the pseudo variable name using ferret?
> > Any help is appreciated.
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > prescilla
> >
> > Prescilla
> >
>