[gradsusr] Opening and extracting grads file generated from fortran

Jeff Duda jeffduda319 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 23:13:12 EDT 2012


Please show the entire control file.

Jeff Duda

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:04 PM, irene alabia <irenealabia at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear Grads-users,
>
> I am working with data files which I believed are created using Fortran
> code. I am new to Grads and I tried the basic commands  to explore the data
> files but cant get past the opening phase. the file has a control file
> which looks like this:
>
> ga-> open mld.ctl
> Scanning description file:  mld.ctl
> Data file %y4/mld.%y4%m2%d2_%h2%n2 is open as file 1
> LON set to 99.5 285
> LAT set to -15.5 65
> LEV set to 0.5 0.5
> Time values set: 1981:1:1:0 1981:1:1:0
> E set to 1 1
>
> ga-> q file
> File 1 : Mixed layer depth (delta_sigma = 0.05)
>   Descriptor: mld.ctl
>   Binary: %y4/mld.%y4%m2%d2_%h2%n2
>   Type = Gridded
>   Xsize = 372  Ysize = 162  Zsize = 54  Tsize = 1080  Esize = 1
>   Number of Variables = 2
>      mld  1  99  Mixed layer depth (unit in m ; d_sigma=0.05)
>      rsig  1  99  Surface density
>
>  Any help to read and save the files for each Zlevels is very much
> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
> Irene
>
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Jeff Duda
Graduate research assistant
University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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