downloading and visualizing NARR data

[Jennifer Adams]

Alan,
Can you be more specific about what the problem is? Is it PDEF-
related? Where did you get the data and the descriptor file?
--Jennifer

On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Alan Robock wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> A student, Anthony DeAngelis, and I are trying to download monthly
> mean
> NARR fields and read them with GrADS.
>
> We downloaded a climatology file, cpc_rr_mon.1979-2001.clim.06, and
> the
> grads control and index files, cpc_rr_mon.1979-2001.clim.ctl and
> cpc_rr_mon.1979-2001.clim.idx, but could not get GrADS to make
> reasonable plots.  We got hints from Wesley, but still could not
> get it
> to work.
>
> Has anyone done this, and could they tell us what to do, particularly
> how to modify the .ctl file to get it to work?  Thanks.
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Robock, Professor II
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>   Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
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Jennifer M. Adams
IGES/COLA
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Calverton, MD 20705
jma at cola.iges.org



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