[gradsusr] Problem with GrADS in reading ECMWF synoptic monthly means data

[Jennifer Adams]

Please send the output from ncdump -c on your netcdf file. --Jennifer

On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Mubashar Dogar wrote:

>
> Dear GrADS users,
>
> I am facing a problem with time steps of a netcdf file downloaded  
> for synoptic monthly means of ECMWF ERA-INTERIM forecast product for  
> the year 1989 (downloaded for surface total precipitation for all  
> time steps available from: http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/interim_mnth/) 
> . This file is basically synoptic monthly means generated by long  
> term average of corresponding 3 hour in all the days of a month,  
> giving 8 time steps in a month. So instead of reading 96 values that  
> represents to 12 months (8 values in each months) GrADS read all  
> these values by considering 8 time steps in a day instead in a  
> month. I mean GrADS reads these hours in a daily format instead of  
> monthly. Does GrADS not deal with synoptic monthly means? I have  
> grib file as well for the same data, what should be time increment  
> in a ctl file to open the same grib file?
>
>
> Mubashar Dogar
>
>
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