seasonal data

[Paulo Nobre]

Hi Ruth,
You can use the options template feature of GrADS to do what you want.
But first you need your data writen in monthly files (e.g.
filename.month.year.dat).
Tdef shall have 1200 (12 months, 100 years) timesteps and increment
shall be one month.
Regards,
Paulo Nobre
CPTEC/INPE


Ruth Cerezo Mota wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>I have 100 year data set, but I only have June-Jul-Sep of every year. How
>can I 'told' this to grads, I mean, I can open the file without problems and
>then  if I ask the first time it says: jun 1860, 3th time: sept 1860, but if
>I ask the 4th time instead of says jun 1870 it says: oct 1860 and so on...
>Actually the main problem is that I want to create some time series and of
>course that in the way that grads is reading the time the xlabel in my
>graphics are totally wrong.
>Does anybody knows how to read properly the time or modify the labels in a
>time serie plot???
>thanks a lot
>cheers,
>Ruth Cerezo-Mota
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