Another problem I ran into: apparently Nov-Dec. 1999 monthly averages for HADCM3 B1 precipitation, where I flipped the axes in NCO, are blank.
problem <- brick("hadcm3.b1.pr.NAm.grid_monthly.nc_out.nc")
plot(problem$X1999.11.15)
plot(problem$X1999.12.16)
The above returns the correct axes, but blank plots. The problem is present before I flipped the axes, so I have to go back to the original files before I did the averaging to find out what’s wrong. I wonder if there were blank layers anywhere in the Nov-Dec daily data?