Reported by @AnsleyManke on 6 Mar 2015 19:47 UTC
When variables from a dataset have scale_factor and/or add_offset attributes, we re-scale them on writing to an output file. We also write them using the data type of the variable in the source data set.
When multiple variables are written together, the scaling is not done correctly.
This was reported by Ned Cokelet
yes? use my_subset.nc
yes? sh dat
currently SET data sets:
1> ./my_subset.nc (default)
name title I J K L M N
LONGITUDE
longitude 1:11 1:11 ... ... ... ...
LATITUDE latitude 1:11 1:11 ... ... ... ...
MELT_ONSET_DAY_SEAICE_CONC_CDR
Day of Snow Melt Onset Over Sea 1:11 1:11 ... 1:1 ... ...
QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR
Passive Microwave Daily Norther 1:11 1:11 ... 1:1 ... ...
GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC
Goddard Edited Climate Data Rec 1:11 1:11 ... 1:1 ... ...
yes? sh att QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR
attributes for dataset: ./my_subset.nc
QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR.missing_value = 0
QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR._FillValue = 0
QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR.long_name = Passive Microwave Daily Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Concentration QC flags
QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR.history = From seaice_conc_daily_nh_f17_20080101_v02r00
yes? sh att GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC
attributes for dataset: ./my_subset.nc
GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC._FillValue = -1
GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC.long_name = Goddard Edited Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Daily Northern Hemisphere Sea Ice Concentration, Goddard Edited
GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC.units = 1
GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC.scale_factor = 0.01
GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC.history = From seaice_conc_daily_nh_f17_20080101_v02r00
yes? save/file=new.nc/clobber
yes? save/file=new.nc/clobber QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR, GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC
LISTing to file new.nc
NetCDF: Numeric conversion not representable (OPeNDAP/netCDF Error code -60)
data in variable QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR not representable in output type NC_BYTE
The error message stems from the fact that the re-scaling factors for the variable GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC was erroneously applied to QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR, making its values too large to write as BYTE.
Reported by @AnsleyManke on 6 Mar 2015 19:47 UTC When variables from a dataset have scale_factor and/or add_offset attributes, we re-scale them on writing to an output file. We also write them using the data type of the variable in the source data set.
When multiple variables are written together, the scaling is not done correctly.
This was reported by Ned Cokelet
The error message stems from the fact that the re-scaling factors for the variable GODDARD_MERGED_SEAICE_CONC was erroneously applied to QA_OF_SEAICE_CONC_CDR, making its values too large to write as BYTE.
Migrated-From: http://dunkel.pmel.noaa.gov/trac/ferret/ticket/2240