Help on EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover data

[Arindam Chakraborty]

dear Prince,
        reading the variable as integer(1) in a fortran program should
solve your problem. However, 1-byte unsigned characters can be read in
GrADS directly by writing -1,40,1 in the units field of the variable
in the descriptor file.

regards,

arindam
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On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Prince K. Xavier wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a slightly out of topic query. I am trying to convert the Northern
> Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent Version 2, to
> Grads format, which is written in Flat binary files with arrays of 721
> columns by 721 rows of 1-byte unsigned integers.
>
> My query is, whether it is possible to read it as 1-byte integers in
> fortran, than reading it as character?
>
> If anyone has faced this problem before, please let me know how you have
> resolved it.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Prince
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