[gradsusr] Opening and extracting grads file generated from fortran

irene alabia irenealabia at gmail.com
Mon Jul 30 23:36:55 EDT 2012


Hi,

Thank you for the quick reply. Attached is the entire control file.

Thanks much

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>
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> Jeff Duda
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> Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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