[Paraview] netcdf time series

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Jade,

We need more information before we can properly answer this question.  First, which netCDF reader are you using (there is more than one in ParaView)?  Unless your data is of a particular format, you should be using the "netCDF files generic and CF conventions".

Second, we need to know the information about the variables defined.  What variables are defined, what are their dimensions, and what are their attributes.

I am guessing that you have not properly identified the variable "Time" as a time dimension in your netCDF file (simply naming it "Time" is not sufficient in the CF convention).  To identify it as time, you also need to define a variable named "Time" of dimension "Time" and containing the property "units" that contains a string value defining some time unit (such as "seconds since 1992-10-8 15:15:42.5 -6:00".  The contents of this variable should contain the time stamp for each time slice.  See the documentation for the CF convention (http://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/documents/cf-conventions/1.6/cf-conventions.html#time-coordinate) for more details.

-Ken

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Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 7:39 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Paraview] netcdf time series

Hi,

I am seeking advice regarding visualization of weather model output using paraview.
I am only able to view the first frame of my netcdf file. The dimensions are:

netcdf mynetcdffile {
dimensions:
        Time = UNLIMITED ; // (25 currently)
        DateStrLen = 19 ;
        west_east = 329 ;
        south_north = 329 ;
        bottom_top = 50 ;
        bottom_top_stag = 51 ;
        soil_layers_stag = 5 ;
        west_east_stag = 330 ;
        force_layers = 8 ;
        south_north_stag = 330 ;


Thanks in advance,

Jade

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