[gradsusr] Creating a Binary File in Grads

[Kishore Ragi]

After getting this, if you still want only binary files, please let me
know. there are couple of options to make nc file to .dat file, even with
grads.

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Kishore Ragi <kishoreragi at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> *Hi Valeria Benson-Lira,*
> If you don't have problem working with nc files, I will give you other
> option to achieve your task.
>
> First, you make your ctl file into netcdf files as below
>
> cdo -f nc import_binary ENCB1_precip_apr2008.ctl precip.april.nc
> cdo -f nc import_binary ENCB1_precip_may2008.ct precip.may.nc
> cdo -f nc import_binary ENCB1_precip_jun2008.ctl precip.june.nc
> cdo -f nc import_binary ENCB1_precip_july2008.ctl precip.july.nc
>
> now merge them all in a single file like below
>
> cdo mergetime precip.april.nc precip.may.nc precip.june.nc precip.july.nc
> precip.AMJJ.nc
>
> Though, I did not help with grads, hope this helps.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kishore
>
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Valeria Benson-Lira <vbensonl at asu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Grads users,
>>
>> Can someone please help me with my script? I am trying to write a binary
>> file that contains all the values recorded in four different control files.
>> My new binary file will have the hourly precipitation records from April
>> through July. So far, the script works for the first month but not for the
>> following months.
>>
>> This is the script:
>>
>>
>> 'reinit'
>>
>> 'open ENCB1_precip_apr2008.ctl'
>>
>> 'open ENCB1_precip_may2008.ct'
>>
>> 'open ENCB1_precip_jun2008.ctl'
>>
>> 'open ENCB1_precip_july2008.ctl'
>>
>>
>> 'set gxout fwrite'
>>
>> 'set fwrite ENCB1_AMJJ_precip.dat '
>>
>>
>> *****Write April data First.
>>
>> *****Recall that April has 720 hours (30 days)
>>
>> *index*_t = 1
>>
>> while(*index*_t<=720)
>>
>>   'set t '*index*_t
>>
>>   say *index*_t
>>
>>   'd precip.1 '
>>
>>   *index*_t = *index*_t + 1
>>
>> endwhile
>>
>>
>> *****Write May data Next.
>>
>> *****Recall that May has 744 hours (31 days)
>>
>> *index*_t = 1
>>
>> while(*index*_t<=744)
>>
>>   'set t '*index*_t
>>
>>   say *index*_t
>>
>>   'd precip.2 '
>>
>>   *index*_t = *index*_t + 1
>>
>> endwhile
>>
>>
>> *****Write June data Next.
>>
>> *****Recall that June has 720 hours (30 days)
>>
>> *index*_t = 1
>>
>> while(*index*_t<=720)
>>
>>   'set t '*index*_t
>>
>>   say *index*_t
>>
>>   'd precip.3 '
>>
>>   *index*_t = *index*_t + 1
>>
>> endwhile
>>
>>
>> *****Write July data Next.
>>
>> *****Recall that July has 744 hours (31 days)
>>
>> *index*_t = 1
>>
>> while(*index*_t<=744)
>>
>>   'set t '*index*_t
>>
>>   say *index*_t
>>
>>   'd precip.4 '
>>
>>   *index*_t = *index*_t + 1
>>
>> endwhile
>>
>>
>> *************************
>>
>> 'disable fwrite'
>>
>> *************************
>>
>> *****Always reinitialize when finished,
>>
>> *****to avoid mistakingly writing extraneous data
>>
>> 'reinit'
>>
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion of how I can fix it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> *Valeria Benson-Lira*
>> *Graduate Teaching Assistant, Geography M.A.*
>> *e-mail: vbensonl at asu.edu <vbensonl at asu.edu>*
>>
>>
>>
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