Can't get contour plots to form/incompatible grids & trouble creating scripts

[anil kumar rohilla]

while saving file you enclose tha file in double quotes e.g "file.gs" it will work


On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 Mark Schuster wrote :
>Hello all
>
>I am new to GRADS, and I am working with files that I downloaded from the
>NCEP reanalysis page that are in .nc format.  If I type something like...
>
>sdfopen shum9495.nc
>set lat 60
>set lon 250
>set t 1
>d vint(1000.,shum,350)
>
>I will get the vertically integrated water content at that point which is
>great, but I am more interested in the spatial distribution (contour plot),
>so I make the lat and lon vary.  So if I type
>
>sdfopen shum9495.nc
>set lat 50 70
>set lon 230 250
>set t 1
>d vint(1000.,shum,350)
>
>I get an error about incompatible grids, and I get the error box "this
>program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down".  I have
>no idea why I don't get a contour plot, as the data I downloaded is within
>the grid that I specify.  I am sure that it is probably a very simple thing
>that I am totally unaware of that I am doing wrong since I am new to grads.
>
>Also, for creating scripts, do I just type it up in notepad, and type run
>script in the grads window?  Extension is suppose to be .gs, but if you
>type it in notepad, it has a .txt extension.
>
>Many thanks!
>
>Mark


ANIL KUMAR( METEOROLOGIST GR -II)
LRF SECTION 
NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER 
ADGM(RESEARCH)
INDIA METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT
SHIVIJI NAGAR
PUNE-411005 INDIA
MOBILE +919422023277
anilkumar at imdpune.gov.in
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