Error: band does not contain integer pixels

[treble]

Hi,

I get this weird error when I try to load a sea ice concentration file from NSIDC: Error: band does not contain integer pixels

I am using the Climate Data Record product for ice concentration, data set G02202 https://nsidc.org/data/g02202

They recently created a new Version 4. I only get this error when using Version 4. Version 3 worked fine. There is nothing obvious in the headers of the file. IDL, Panoply, etc. can read it fine...

For example file: ftp://sidads.colorado.edu/pub/DATASETS/ ... _v04r00.nc

This happens in SeaDAS 8 as well as SeaDAS 7.5 and gpt. NSIDC doesn't know either why it wouldn't load.

Thanks!

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[OB SeaDAS - xuanyang02]

Thanks for reporting the bug.

The new version of the NSIDC sea ice file has 3D arrays, but one dimension is unity. It seems that we need a new reader for it.

We'll work on it.

[OB ODPS - towens]

The version 3 format data are still available as well as v4.

Tommy

[treble]

Thanks for looking into it!

Version 3 only goes through 2020...

[OB ODPS - towens]

OK we are using the NRT data and get the version 3 here:
https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/PM/NSIDC ... _nrt_n.bin
https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/PM/NSIDC ... _nrt_s.bin

Tommy

[jroebuck]

I am the user representative for this data set at NSIDC. I just wanted to add that version 3 of the NOAA/NSIDC Climate Data Record of Passive Microwave Sea Ice Concentration data set will soon no longer be available. Public access to version 3 will no longer be available after 18 February 2022. There are a lot of differences between version 3 and version 4, so in general we recommend using the latest version of the data, version 4: https://nsidc.org/data/g02202/versions/4.