[gradsusr] Opening and extracting grads file generated from fortran

[Jeff Duda]

What happens when you run the commands
'open mld.ctl'
'd mld'
Any error messages?  Do the data display?

Jeff

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:36 PM, irene alabia <irenealabia at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
>> Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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Jeff Duda
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University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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