[gradsusr] Station data control file

[M.Mahakur]

You need to correct your .ctl file, No need to specify lon-lat coordinates in the GrADS DDF. 

Please see the documenation. 

XDEF, YDEF, and ZDEF These entries are not included in a station data control file

(http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutstationdata.html)

----- Original Message -----
From: Clement Agboma <aclems at gmail.com>
To: gradsusr at gradsusr.org
Sent: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 19:46:26 +0530 (IST)
Subject: [gradsusr] Station data control file

Hello All,

I am having lots of issues reading station data with a control file that I
had used  multiple times in the past to open and view meteorological
variable. I have a fortran program that generates a binary file and I use
the stnmap utility to create the required  map file for inclusion in the
station control file. My control file is attached.

When I try to open the file in grads, and I use the "q dim" command, it
gives a global coverage for my data domain as follows:

ga-> q dim
Default file number is: 1
X is varying   Lon = 0 to 360   X = 0 to 360
Y is varying   Lat = -90 to 90   Y = -90 to 90
Z is fixed     Lev = 500  Z = 500
T is fixed     Time = 00Z01JAN2006  T = 1


My actual station data domain is:

xdef 9 linear -103.7 0.3
ydef 5 linear 51.8 0.3
zdef 1 linear 1 1
tdef 3287 linear 00Z01jan2006 1dy

I have tried to use stnmap -1 -i  (my_control_file) as well as stnmap  -i
 (my_control_file) to generate stnmap files for use in grads versions  1.94
and 2.0.2 but the problem persist.

Please can someone assist because I never had this problem in the past
using this same control file.  A few people equally had this problem a
while back but I didn't see any solution provided.

Thanks,

Clement Agboma (PhD, PGeo).