[gradsusr] trmm

[SREEKANTH T.S]

my dear Rahiz format of data is .bin (*'3B42.100601.00z.6.precipitation.bin'
* file name one file) how this data is accessed by grads?

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Muhammad Rahiz <
muhammad.rahiz at ouce.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> 1. Need to provide the format of your TRMM data e.g. netcdf, grib, ctl.
> 2. Are you using a 360 day calendar?
>
> Other comments in the body of original message (not tested).
>
> --
> Muhammad Rahiz
> Researcher & DPhil Candidate (Climate Systems & Policy)
> School of Geography & the Environment
> University of Oxford
>
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, SREEKANTH T.S wrote:
>
> > dear grads users
> > i have downloaded 3 hourly trmm data.
> > 1.i want to plot hourly variation of rain rate at a particular lat lon
> for
> > each day.
>
> Your data is 3 hourly - this means that you can only have 8 time steps in
> a day and not 24 timesteps. You can try the following which gives you the
> plot (time series) of one day.
>
> 'set t 1 8' * 8 timesteps = 1 day given your 3hourly data
> 'set lon 60'
> 'set lat 40'
> 'd var'
>
> > 2. also wanted to plot the daily variation of rain rate for an area.
> > but i dont know how to write the .ctl file
> > being a beginer can anyone help me, please?
>
> Not sure what you mean by writing a ctl file. You dont need to write a ctl
> file to plot in GrADS.
>
> 'set lon 60 100'
> 'set lat 20 40'
>
> 'd ave(variable,t=1,t=8)'  * this is for day 1
> 'printim day1.png white'
>
> 'd ave(variable,t=9,t=16)' * this is for day 2
> 'printim day2.png white'
>
>
> > sreekanth T S
> > doctorate student
> > cess, kerala
> >
> >
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