Using GrADS to open HDF-EOS

[Mike Bosilovich]

It's not clear which data you are looking at, level 2 or level 3.  The
descriptor file below I used to analyze the level 3 global 5km MODIS
LST product.  I don't think level 2 is possible.

When i've wanted to analyze the level 2 granules in grads, I had to
first convert to a regular grid. I think HDFView will do that, but not
in a batch way.

I hope that someone has a better answer than mine!

Mike

DSET MOD11C1.A2001%m2%d2.004.hdf
title MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST) CMG v4
DTYPE hdfsds
OPTIONS yrev template
unpack scale_factor add_offset
undef 0 _FillValue
XDEF 7200 linear -180 0.05
YDEF 3600 linear  -90 0.05
ZDEF 1 linear 1 1
TDEF 115 linear 04jul2001 1dy
VARS 6
LST_Day_CMG=>LSTDay 0 y,x Daily daytime 3min CMG Land-surface Temp
LST_Night_CMG=>LSTNite 0 y,x Daily nighttime 3min CMG Land-surface Temp
QC_Day=>QCDay  0 y,x Quality control for daytime LST and emissivity
QC_Night=>QCNite  0 y,x Quality control for nighttime LST and emissivity
Day_view_time=>DayTime  0 y,x Time of daytime LST observation (UTC)
Night_view_time=>NiteTime  0 y,x Time of nighttime LST observation (UTC)
ENDVARS


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Aaron Pratt <aspratt2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to use Windows-based GrADS (or GrADSnc, GrADS-DODS,
> GrADS-HDF, etc) to open HDF-EOS files associated with MODIS, CloudSat, and
> CALIPSO? Or should they be converted into NetCDF files? Thanks in advance
> for any information that anyone has on this; it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>
>
> Aaron