Using Windows-based GrADS-HDF to examine TRMM orbit data files

[Jennifer Adams]

No version of GrADS handles HDF-formatted swath data. You can try to
convert it from HDF into the GrADS station-data binary format, but
this would require a considerable amount of customized programming.
Jennifer

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Jennifer M. Adams
IGES/COLA
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Calverton, MD 20705
jma at cola.iges.org


On Jul 19, 2008, at 9:18 PM, Mr Aaron Pratt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to create plots derived from the TRMM 2A12 orbital
> product (it's the hydrometeor profile data) . It's not gridded
> data, but rather in orbital swaths. The files are HDF files, so
> that's why I thought that GrADS might be able to open them.
> However, I wasn't sure if the HDF files needed to be converted into
> a GrADS type file (like a .ctl file and the corresponding .dat
> file). I was told that the files could be converted through the
> following link: http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/; however I
> don't see anywhere on the website where this is possible. Thanks in
> advance for any help that can be provided.
>
> Aaron

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