netCDF not being read properly

I'm trying to read MERRA data from the NASA website http://gdata1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/daac-bin/G3/gui.cgi?instance_id=MERRA_HOUR_3D in form of a netCDF file. When I try to read the data, MATLAB gives me 1.0e+15 for all of data. I'm assuming that this is because MATLAB cannot read such a large netCDF file properly. Is there any way to work around this?

Answer 1

[John]

Is it possible that the data consists entirely of fill values? What version of matlab are you using? If you have 11a, what do ncdisp and ncread say?

[Kevin]

I'm using 10b. I'm assuming that ncdisp and ncread is only available on 11a? The data isn't composed of fill values.

[John]

Just to close the loop on this, further investigation by Kevin and myself confirmed that the file was indeed created with all fill values.