Error in displaying TRMM 3B42 hdf data file

[Phillip Lin]

Hi Liu Zhong,
How are you? I guess you come from China, me too. I am in Canada now. I am
also using GrADS now and hope to learn how use it. Could you give me some
of your .ctl files and data files too, including the Fortran code used to
write the data file that is used as an input data to GrADS to me, so that
I can use them to have a test to my GrADS. I am curious about where you
are you, your status etc. Thanks!
Hope to hear from you.
my email is naishi at meteo.mcgill.ca


> You're right. I couldn't access my ctl file yesterday. Here is the
> correct one,
>
> DSET ^3B42.041118.18.6.HDF
> DTYPE hdfsds
> TITLE This is only a test
> UNDEF -9999.90
> XDEF 1440 LINEAR -179.87500000 0.25000000
> YDEF  400 linear  -49.87500000 0.25000000
> ZDEF 1 LEVELS 1 1
> TDEF 1 LINEAR 18Z18nov2004 3hr
> VARS 2
> precipitation=>pcp    1  z,x,y Precipitation
> relativeError=>err    1  z,x,y Error
> ENDVARS
>
> If you have TRMM related questions, please let me know.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -Zhong
>
>
> axl419 at yahoo.com wrote:
>> Dear Dr Liu,
>>
>>      Thank you.  In fact, Dr M. Mahakur of Indian Institute of Tropical
>> Meteorology had helped me to resolve my problem.  Anyway, I
>> followed your example to do a test, it showed display error.  As Dr
>> Mahakur pointed out, " z,x,y you can use for  for level dependent
>> (zdef >1) variables and t,x,y for (zdef=1)and tdef=1 or more. It
>> depends upon the data.". In my case, zdef=1 and I need to put it as
>> t,x,y (not t,z,x,y).
>>
>>     Once again, thank you for your kind help too.
>>
>>     Best regards.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> OOI See-hai
>>
>>
>> --- On Mon, 15/6/09, Liu, Zhong (GSFC-610.2)[GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY]
>> <zhong.liu-1 at nasa.gov> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> From: Liu, Zhong (GSFC-610.2)[GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY]
>>> <zhong.liu-1 at nasa.gov>
>>> Subject: RE: Error in displaying TRMM 3B42 hdf data file
>>> To: "axl419 at yahoo.com" <axl419 at yahoo.com>, "GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT"
>>> <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>, "Liu, Zhong (GSFC-610.2)[GEORGE MASON
>>> UNIVERSITY]" <zhong.liu-1 at nasa.gov>, "Greene, Mary C. (GSFC-610.2)[R S
>>> INFORMATION SYSTEMS,]" <mary.c.greene at nasa.gov>
>>> Date: Monday, 15 June, 2009, 10:54 PM
>>> Try this,
>>>
>>> dset  d:/test/3B42.090101.0.6A.HDF
>>> dtype hdfsds
>>> undef -9999.9
>>> xdef 1440 linear 179.875 0.25
>>> ydef 400 linear -49.879 0.25
>>> zdef 1 linear 1 1
>>> tdef 1 linear 00Z01jan2009 3 hr
>>> vars 2
>>> precipitation=>p    t,z,x,y precipitation
>>> relativeerror=>re   t,z,x,y relative error
>>> endvars
>>>
>>> if not working, email me.
>>>
>>> -Zhong
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>
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