Re: [ferret_users] NetCDF: Not a valid data type or _FillValue type mismatch

[Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paulo,
Thank you for the report.  I see the problem and will try to sort it out.



On 8/31/2011 10:37 AM, Paulo B. Oliveira wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The attached CDF file (test_out.cdf) was built by an extraction tool
> from the MyOcean (http://www.myocean.eu.org/) data server. It's OK to
> plot the data but I'm not being able to save a subset of data.
>
> A "Not a valid data type" error occurs, either asking to preserve the
> variable attributes or not.
>
> Any hints ? Thanks.
>
> ___________________________ converting to float ________________
> $ ferret
>   	NOAA/PMEL TMAP
>   	FERRET v6.65
>   	Linux rh5 (gfortran) 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 - 11/30/10
>   	31-Aug-11 18:32
>
> yes?  use test_out.cdf
> yes? set reg/i=10/j=10
> yes? save/file=test_out_subset.cdf/clobber u
>   LISTing to file test_out_subset.cdf
>   *** NOTE: Converting data type of missing_value NC_SHORT to match
> output type of variable NC_FLOAT
> NetCDF: Not a valid data type or _FillValue type mismatch
> (OPeNDAP/netCDF Error code -45)
>   could not change CDF mode
> ncclose: ncid 131072: NetCDF: Not a valid data type or _FillValue type
> mismatch
>
> ___________________________ keeping var atts ________________
> $ ferret
>   	NOAA/PMEL TMAP
>   	FERRET v6.65
>   	Linux rh5 (gfortran) 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 - 11/30/10
>   	31-Aug-11 18:32
>
> yes? use test_out.cdf
> yes? set reg/i=10/j=10
> yes? set att/output=all (U)
> yes? save/file=test_out_subset.cdf/clobber U
>   LISTing to file test_out_subset.cdf
> NetCDF: Not a valid data type or _FillValue type mismatch
> (OPeNDAP/netCDF Error code -45)
>   could not change CDF mode
> ncclose: ncid 131072: NetCDF: Not a valid data type or _FillValue type
> mismatch