downloading and visualizing NARR data

[Alan Robock]

Alan Robock, Professor II
Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers University
14 College Farm Road
New Brunswick, NJ  08901

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On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma at COLA.IGES.ORG> wrote:

> 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
>>   Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program
>>   Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction
>> Department of Environmental Sciences        Phone: +1-732-932-9800
>> x6222
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>
> --
> Jennifer M. Adams
> IGES/COLA
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705
> jma at cola.iges.org
>
>
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