template in netCDF data

[Sergey Varlamov]

Nakazawa-san,

You can use the template with Netcdf files in GrADS.
Detailed instructions are in the GrADS documentation:

http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html

You  need directly specify the:

DTYPE  netcdf

plus define the time range:

tdef 10 linear 00:00Z08jan2006 1dy

and, possibly, modify the variables description  (use ncdump -c  "you
_nc_file" to get info)
like next:

votemper=>t 72 t,z,y,x  potential temperature [C]

May be you will need also the xdef,ydef and zdef sections, especially if
these are not standard in the nc file.

If you will have problems - please send me one or two you nc files,
I'll make for you an example of data description file.

Sergey Varlamov,
RIAM, Kyushu University


Tetsuo Nakazawa wrote:

> Dear GrADS users,
>  Is it possible to use template for the netCDF data?
>
>  The example is as follows.
>
> DSET ^./%y4/%y4%m2%d2%h2.nc
> options template
> VARS 6
> wsp 1 99 wind speed
> zwsp 1 99 wind speed, zonal component
> mwsp 1 99 wind speed, meridional component
> wst 1 99 wind stress
> zwst 1 99 wind stress, zonal component
> mwst 1 99 wind stress, meridional component
> ENDVARS
>
>
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