fwrite MM5 output

[Shailendra Rai]

Hello,
U should write .gs file like
  
'open test24.ctl'
'set x 1 202'  
'set y 1 133'
'set gxout fwrite'
'set fwrite uv.dat'
t=13
while (t<=36)
'set t 't
'set z 1'
'd u'
'd v'
t=t+1
endwhile
'disable fwrite'
Hope this should work
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Shailendra Rai.
K. Banerjee Centre of Atmospheric and Ocean Studies
University of Allahabad
Allahabad
INDIA.

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 DaNa L.Carlis wrote :
>Hello,
>
>I am attempting to write MM5 output to a binary file that can be read by
>GRADS.  I only want to write the u and v component of the winds between the
>12th and 36th hour of the forecast run.  I've attached a portion of the .ctl
>file that is produced using MM5toGrADS.
>
>dset ^test24.dat
>byteswapped
>title MM5 data
>undef -9999.
>pdef   99   69 lcc   20.50 -157.20   14.00   11.00   30.00   60.00 -157.20
>  2000.   2000.
>xdef  202 linear -157.44  0.0090
>ydef  133 linear   20.32  0.0090
>zdef  28 levels
>  0.99900
>  0.99600
>  0.99200
>  0.98750
>  0.98250
>tdef  49 linear 00:00Z24JUL2005  1hr
>vars 28
>u         28 99 u wind (m/s)
>v         28 99 v wind (m/s)
>
>Here is a copy of my .gs file that I'm using to write the data:
>
>'open test24.ctl'
>'set x 1 201'
>'set y 1 132'
>'set gxout fwrite'
>'set fwrite uv.dat'
>t=13
>while (t<=36)
>'set t 't
>'d u'
>'d v'
>t=t+1
>endwhile
>
>The .ctl file that is used to read the uv.dat binary file is the following:
>
>dset ^uv.dat
>title wind data
>undef -9999.
>xdef  202 linear -157.44  0.0090
>ydef  133 linear   20.32 0.0090
>zdef  1 levels 0.99900
>tdef 24 linear 12:00Z24JUL2005   1hr
>vars 2
>u         0 99 u wind (m/s)
>v    0 99 u wind (m/s)
>endvars
>
>So, the problem that I'm having is that I can write the data to the binary
>file, but when I open up grads to display the data that I wrote the plots
>are shifted or skewed.  The display at time t=1 is fine, but as I move to
>t=5,6,7,etc.. the data becomes more skewed.  Please help!!
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