<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi king,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>what is your mean of "output plot is wrong"?</DIV><DIV>If the magnitude of U is not right, you can define a new variable in your gs file,</DIV><DIV>i.g U = uwnd*scale_factor + add_offset. And then display the new variable.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Wish this can help you.<BR><DIV><DIV>On May 12, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Wang, Chenghai wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV class="Section1"><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Dear All,</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> I write a description file to handle NetCDF file, but output plot is wrong, I Consider may be caused by</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">add_offset and scale_factor. 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"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">endvars</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><DIV><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">It can open Netcdf file, but output plot is wrong. let me know if you have any suggestion.</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:12.0pt; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 16px; "><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; text-indent: 16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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