conversion of grads to nc file

[Lee Byerle]

Paul,
Have you considered the oacres() command?  You might consider mapping the
station data to an arbitrary uniform grid, then run that array through the
lats4d program to get the nc file.  Information on oacres() is found in
the online documentation.

Lee


> hi,
>      I want to convert the grads binary data file to netcdf. I can do it
> very easyly by lat4d for grided data. But the problem comes with the
> station data file. Say I have station data file 1990new.grads,
> 1990new.map and 1990new.ctl. The data descripor file is like below,
>
> dset  ^1990new.grads
> dtype   station
> stnmap  1990new.map
> undef   -9999.00
> title   rain
> tdef  365 linear 01jan1990 1dy
> vars   1
> rain 0 99 rain
> endvars
>
>
> But the lats4d is giving some error about invalid dimension environment,
> and error creating coards nc file.
>
> I cannot figure out what is the problem, can anyone suggest me any wayout?
>
> regards
>
> Sahana
>
> Dr. Sahana Paul.
> Post Doctoral Research Fellow,
> National Taiwan University