PDEF, rotated poles and binary file(s)

[Wesley Ebisuzaki]

Tero Siili wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2006, at 16:38, Wesley Ebisuzaki wrote:
>
>> Tero,
>>
>>     GrADS can do arbitrary grids.   You use the PDEF file or PDEF
>> bilin
>> option.  All it needs is a binary file that specifies how to go
>> from the
>> internal
>> grid to the external grid (rotated pole).
>
> Thanks to Wesley for this response and the replies offline.
>
> To move to the practical implementation, is out there anyone who has
> actually used GrADS and the PDEF entry for this type of purpose and
> might even provide me with either further advice in or even sample
> Fortran code for generating the needed binary file for the "PDEF
> file" or "PDEF bilin" approach?
>
> I have read the PDEF documentation, but to me it does not specify the
> approach (for this application, anyway) in sufficient detail and I am
> a bit in a hurry to do lots of trial and error; hence pointers,
> advice or samples would be extremely helpful.
>
> Tero Siili

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