[gradsusr] how to open he5 data in grads

James E. Johnson James.Johnson at nasa.gov
Mon Mar 12 09:08:57 EDT 2012


Must be opengrads, I use the regular Grads v2.0.a7.1 at it works. Direct your 
problem to opengrads developers.

James


On Saturday, March 10, 2012 12:40:00 pm Midhun M wrote:
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> From: Midhun M <midhun.ndr at gmail.com>
>  Date: 10 March 2012 14:19
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] how to open he5 data in grads
> To: "James E. Johnson" <James.Johnson at nasa.gov>
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> 
> Thank you for your help. I tried your ctl file in grads-2.0.1 and
> opengrads-2.0.1.oga. (I have used  the executable binary files from their
> websites) But in both of them I got the  following error
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> ga-> open
> tesl3hdo.ctl                                                              
>                                    Scanning description file:  tesl3hdo.ctl
> Open Error:  Invalid variable record
>   --> The invalid description file record is:
>    --> /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/HDO=>hdo                        
> 15  x,y,z The data file was not opened.
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> 
> Please help me in this regard
>  Please explain the procedure of creating ctl file from he5 files.
> 
> 
> with regards,
> midhun
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> On 9 March 2012 20:34, James E. Johnson <James.Johnson at nasa.gov> wrote:
> 
> On Friday, March 09, 2012 05:25:31 am Midhun M wrote:
>  > I need to open multiple he5 files in grads.  If anybody know how  to use
>  > template option for multiple he5 file please help me.
>  > 
>  > datasets can be obtained at
>  > ftp://l4ftl01.larc.nasa.gov/tesl1l2l3/TES/TL3HDOM.002/2004.09.03/TES-Aur
>  > a_L 3-HDO-M2004m09_F01_07.he5
>  > ftp://l4ftl01.larc.nasa.gov/tesl1l2l3/TES/TL3HDOM.002/2004.10.09/TES-Aur
>  > a_ L3-HDO-M2004m10_F01_07.he5
>  > ftp://l4ftl01.larc.nasa.gov/tesl1l2l3/TES/TL3HDOM.002/2004.11.04/TES-Aur
>  > a_ L3-HDO-M2004m11_F01_07.he5
>  > 
>  > regards,
> 
> You need to write a GrADS .ctl file to read the data. Here is a .ctl that
> will read them:
> 
>  ---------- tesl3hdo.ctl --------------
>  DSET ^TES-Aura_L3-HDO-M%y4m%m2_F01_07.he5
>  OPTIONS template
>  DTYPE hdf5_grid
>  TITLE TES L3 Monthly Deuterated Water (HDO) Collection 002 (F01_07)
>  UNDEF -999.0 _FillValue
>  XDEF 90 linear -180 4.0
>  YDEF 83 linear -82 2.0
>  ZDEF 15 levels 825.402, 681.291, 464.16, 316.227, 215.444, 146.779,
>                100, 68.1295, 46.4158, 31.6229, 21.5443, 14.678, 10,
>                6.81291, 4.6416
>  TDEF 200 linear jul2004 1mo
>  VARS 10
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/HDO=>hdo                         15
>  x,y,z HDO mixing ratio profile
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/HDOStdDeviation=>hdosd           15
>  x,y,z HDO mixing ratio profile standard deviation
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/HDOMinimum=>hdomn                15
>  x,y,z HDO mixing ratio profile minimum
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/HDOMaximum=>hdomx                15
>  x,y,z HDO mixing ratio profile maximum
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/HDODataCount=>hdoct              15
>  x,y,z HDO mixing ratio profile number
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/TotalColumnDensity=>totden        0
>  x,y HDO total column density
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/TotColDensStdDeviation=>totdensd  0
>  y,x HDO total column density standard deviation
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/TotColDensMinimum=>totdenmn       0
>  y,x HDO total column density minimum
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/TotColDensMaximum=>totdenmx       0
>  y,x HDO total column density maximum
>  /HDFEOS/GRIDS/NadirGrid/Data~Fields/TotColDensDataCount=>totdenct     0
>  y,x HDO total column density number
>  ENDVARS
>  ---------- tesl3hdo.ctl --------------
> 
>  start grads (make sure it is version 2.0.a7 or higher for HDF5 support)
>  $ grads
> 
>  Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.0
>  Copyright (c) 1988-2011 by Brian Doty and the
>  Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
>  GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
>  See file COPYRIGHT for more information
> 
>  Config: v2.0.0 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5
>  opendap-grids,stn athena geotiff shapefile
>  Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information
>  Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):
>  GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5
>  ga-> open tesl3hdo
>  Scanning description file:  tesl3hdo
>  Data file TES-Aura_L3-HDO-M%y4m%m2_F01_07.he5 is open as file 1
>  LON set to 0 360
>  LAT set to -82 82
>  LEV set to 825.402 825.402
>  Time values set: 2004:7:1:0 2004:7:1:0
>  E set to 1 1
>  ga-> set lon -180 180
>  LON set to -180 180
>  ga-> set time oct2004
>  Time values set: 2004:10:1:0 2004:10:1:0
>  ga-> set gxout grfill
>  ga-> set z 2
>  LEV set to 681.291 681.291
>  ga-> d hdo
> 
>  you should have a plot of HDO at 681 hPa pressure level.
> 
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