xancil fails to create sst ancillary file

[chollow]

I would like to make an sst ancillary file from a netcdf sst file. I am using the following job:

/work/n02/n02/chollow/ANCIL/sst_create_ancil_20090125_00z.job

input file, in the same directory, is: sst_ecmwfyotc_global_20090125_00z.nc

The error message, in sst_ancil.log in the same directory, is:

/esfs1/n02/n02/hum/bin/mkancil0.52 failed
forrtl: severe (64): input conversion error, unit -5, file Internal Formatted Read

while executing

"exec $exec_arg < $namelist > $output"

(procedure "run_exec" line 24)
invoked from within

"run_exec $exec"

(procedure "bb_createancil" line 5)
invoked from within

"bb_createancil"

invoked from within

".create invoke"

("uplevel" body line 1)
invoked from within

"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"

(procedure "tk::ButtonUp?" line 22)
invoked from within

"tk::ButtonUp? .create"

(command bound to event)

Please let me know what you think the problem might be,
Thanks,
Chris

[jeff]

Hi Chris

I tracked down the problem to xancil not liking the format of the time attribute units, in your sst netcdf file

time:units = "hours since 1900-01-01 00:00:0.0" ;

Specifically it doesn't like the 0.0. As this is a valid attribute I will need to fix xancil to work with this. A workaround is to specify the dates in xancil and not get them from the netcdf file.

Jeff.