[GPlates-discuss] error upon importing a 3D scalar field

[Sabin Zahirovic]

Hi Oliver,

I didn’t see an attachment to your e-mail, so perhaps it was stripped by the mailing list… 

Are you using netcdf 3 or 4 to make the grids? We currently require netcdf 3 grids, but that will change in the (near) future when netcdf 4 grid support is implemented. From memory, the grids need to also have an integer value of depth (in km) at the end of the filename, preceded by a hyphen or underscore (e.g., ilovegplates3d_200.grd). You should also not have a grid with the same depths. The grids must be in WGS84 geographic co-ordinates too. I’m not sure that the file extension should matter – it should be either nc or grd, from memory. Let me know if these suggestions help. Otherwise, happy to continue troubleshooting.

Cheers,
Sabin

 
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On 29/4/17, 4:03 am, "gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au on behalf of Oliver Strimpel" <gplates-discuss-bounces at mailman.sydney.edu.au on behalf of strimpel at gmail.com> wrote:

    Hello,
    
    I get the attached error message when I try to import a 3D scalar field.
    I'm using GPlates 2.0 (downloaded just recently) on Windows 7.  I get the
    same message whether I select a directory or select all the files within
    the directory, and for each of three different tomography models.
    
    Thanks in advance for help with this.
    
    Oliver Strimpel