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

Mon Mar 7 00:13:46 EST 2011

Hi Zablone,
    How do you get the state boundaries with GrADS? When I am plotting
through grads, it just display the country boundary.
Can you please help me in this regard??

Regards,
Sujata

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Zablone Owiti <zablonowiti at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear Ramaphane,
> As Muhammad has indicated, the script runs. BUT your Objective is to plot
> the station Locations on the map, with station names. If that is the
> case, you need to open  a file (eg. open model.ctl) to set the environment
> (so that you don't get the error massage of No scaling environment) and
> display a variable. The trick I normally use so that I get a blank map is to
> set cmin a value higher than the maximum value of the variable (there
> could be a better way of doing this, I hope somebody will point it out).
> For example I set cmin 10 before diplaying pr variable in model.ctl.
> You also need to zoom in your domain using set lat and set lon.
> See attached map(city.png) I have done with the script.
>  Hope this will help.
>
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> *From:* Muhammad Rahiz <muhammad.rahiz at ouce.ox.ac.uk>
> *To:* GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
> *Cc:*
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 8 February 2011 11:23 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [gradsusr] [BULK] Re: opening text file data
>
> I am able to run the script. See results below
>
> lat is -18.38 lon is 21.85 and the city is Shakawe
> start is 1
> lat is -17.82 lon is 25.15 and the city is Kasane
> start is 2
> lat is -19.98 lon is 23.42 and the city is Maun
> start is 3
> lat is -18.55 lon is 25.63 and the city is Pandamatenga
> start is 4
> lat is -20.52 lon is 26.10 and the city is Sua_Pan
> start is 5
> lat is -21.42 lon is 25.62 and the city is Letlhakane
> start is 6
> lat is -21.17 lon is 27.52 and the city is Francistown
> start is 7
> lat is -21.97 lon is 27.83 and the city is Selibe_Phikwe
> start is 8
> lat is -23.12 lon is 26.83 and the city is Mahalapye
> start is 9
> lat is -24.67 lon is 25.92 and the city is SSKA
> start is 10
> lat is -24.58 lon is 24.80 and the city is Jwaneng
> start is 11
> lat is -25.47 lon is 25.43 and the city is Good_Hope
> start is 12
> lat is -26.22 lon is 22.40 and the city is Tsabong
> start is 13
> lat is -24.02 lon is 21.88 and the city is Tshane
> start is 14
> lat is -25.27 lon is 23.25 and the city is Werda
> start is 15
> lat is -21.68 lon is 21.63 and the city is Gantsi
> start is 16
> lat is -22.38 lon is 26.72 and the city is Serowe
> start is 17
> lat is -24.38 lon is 25.50 and the city is Molepolole
> start is 18
> lat is -25.75 lon is 28.20 and the city is Pretoria
> start is 19
> lat is -33.92 lon is 18.45 and the city is Cape_Town
> start is 20
> lat is -22.57 lon is 17.10 and the city is Windhoek
> start is 21
> lat is -17.83 lon is 31.05 and the city is Harare
> start is 22
> lat is -29.32 lon is 27.48 and the city is Maseru
> start is 23
> lat is -26.33 lon is 31.13 and the city is Manzini
> start is 24
> lat is -25.97 lon is 32.58 and the city is Maputo
> start is 25
> last city is 24
> No scaling environment
>
> This means x is environment and y is
> DRAW error: Syntax is DRAW MARK marktype x y size
> Non-numeric args to numeric operation
>   Error occurred on line 53
>   In file city_plot.gs
>
>
> --
> Muhammad Rahiz
> Researcher & DPhil Candidate (Climate Systems & Policy)
> School of Geography & the Environment
> University of Oxford
>
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Galebonwe Ramaphane wrote:
>
> > Muhammad,
> >
> > I'm also running GrADS on linux. I have gone over the code several times.
> It's one of those annoying problems. I'll attach the sample script and the
> text file for your inspection.
> >
> > Galebonwe Ramaphane
> > Department of Meteorological Services
> > P.O. BOX 10100
> > Gaborone
> > Botswana
> > Tel: +267 3612200
> >  Mobile: +267 74435261
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [mailto:
> gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of Muhammad Rahiz
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 10:36 AM
> > To: GrADS Users Forum
> > Subject: [BULK] Re: [gradsusr] opening text file data
> > Importance: Low
> >
> > Galebonwe,
> >
> > I'm using GrADS on linux and as far as I know, if your text file is in
> the same directory as your script, you don't have to put in the full path.
> > I'm not sure if it's different on Windows although I doubt so. I presume
> you've checked your code?
> >
> > Muhammad Rahiz
> > Researcher & DPhil Candidate (Climate Systems & Policy) School of
> Geography & the Environment University of Oxford
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Galebonwe Ramaphane wrote:
> >
> >> I have a similar but minor problem. My calling script does not see the
> text file. I tried putting the text file in the same directory as the
> calling script. I still failed to read the text file. Do I include the full
> path of the text file?
> >>
> >> Galebonwe Ramaphane
> >> Department of Meteorological Services
> >> P.O. BOX 10100
> >> Gaborone
> >> Botswana
> >> Tel: +267 3612200
> >>  Mobile: +267 74435261
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org
> >> [mailto:gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of Muhammad Rahiz
> >> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 6:32 PM
> >> To: GrADS Users Forum
> >> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] opening text file data
> >>
> >> James, you can try the following.
> >>
> >> *****
> >>
> >> 'sdfopen ifile.nc'
> >>
> >> * ttot = number of lines in text file
> >> ttot = 755
> >> tx = 1
> >> while(tx<=ttot)
> >> fname ='7hA01.out.txt'
> >>  rec = read(fname)
> >>  IO = sublin(rec,1)
> >>  if(IO = 1)
> >>    say fname' > File open error'
> >>    'quit'
> >>  endif
> >>  if(IO = 0)
> >>    t1 = subwrd(rec,2)
> >>    t2 = subwrd(rec,3)
> >>  endif
> >> say ''t1' 't2''
> >>
> >> tx = tx +1
> >> endwhile
> >>
> >> *****
> >>
> >> --
> >> Muhammad Rahiz
> >> Researcher & DPhil Candidate (Climate Systems & Policy) School of
> >> Geography & the Environment University of Oxford
> >>
> >> On Mon, 7 Feb 2011, James Ciarlo` wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> I have several text files such as the one I attached and I need to
> >>> open them which GrADS but I cannot understand how to do so. Can
> >>> someone help me please?
> >>>
> >>> James
> >>>
> >>>
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