<div>Thanks all of you for your prompt reply and help.</div>
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<div>Yours,<br>Haibin<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/7/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Diane Stokes</b> <<a href="mailto:diane.stokes@noaa.gov">diane.stokes@noaa.gov</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Haibin,<br><br>... and if you want to stick with your dummy file, foo.ctl, you can use<br>the predefined variables "lat" or "lon". They exist even for dummy data
<br>sets.<br><br>'set clevs 999' (or any out of range value)<br>'d lat'<br><br> Diane<br><br><br>Mary Jo Nath wrote:<br>> Haibin,<br>><br>> I don't know if there is a way to suppress the undefined message, but you
<br>> can get just the background if you open a real data file, then use "set clevs"<br>> to set a contour value that is out of range of that data, and then display the variable.<br>><br>> Mary Jo<br>
><br>> On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:58, Haibin Li wrote:<br>><br>>>> Hi there, Is there anyway to suppress the warning information "entire<br>>>>grid undefined" in GrADS? What I need is just the background world map,
<br>>>>not any real data fields. But to plot a world map background, I have to<br>>>>display something first. So I created a foo.ctl file. Apparently, if I<br>>>>display dummy variable in the control file, I got "entire
<br>>>>grid undefined". I guess there must be other ways to circumvent this<br>>>>problem. Thanks for your help.<br>><br>><br><br>--<br>Diane Stokes<br>Environmental Modeling Center<br>National Weather Service/NOAA
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