[gradsusr] [BULK] Re: opening text file data

[Muhammad Rahiz]

James,

I've got the impression that you wanted to know how to read in a 
text file and subsequently to use the read-in values to complement the existing data.

What you wanted could be addressed in several ways;
1. convert the ascii to netcdf
2. perform the analysis in other softwares like R, or MATLAB

If you wish to stick to GrADS, theoretically, you would have to make an 
array using the the read-in values from the text files. I've not had any 
experience in this as I've been reading text files per line and feeding 
the values into my analysis, typically using them for averaging. But it's 
worth a try.


-- 
Muhammad Rahiz
Researcher & DPhil Candidate (Climate Systems & Policy)
School of Geography & the Environment
University of Oxford

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, James Ciarlo` wrote:

> Muhammad,
> I have tried using the script that you wrote. I put the nc file I used to
> get the data in the same location, as well as the text file. But the only
> thing the script did was present the contents as if I displayed them with
> the linux command 'cat'
> 
> I need to open the file through GrADS and hence work with it like you would
> with any other file. What I really want to do is apply it to the tcorr
> function for a particular parameter for example pressure, so that I will be
> able to obtain a spatial map of correlation (timeseries data against spatial
> parameter X)
> 
> James
> 
>