<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' border='0' background='none' style='font-family:arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;width:100%;'><tr><td valign='top' style='font: inherit;'><P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: SW">Hi everybody,</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: SW">I am trying to appy the GSMaP-TMI hourly precipitatition data(in grads format) over Africa and I can display the data( for the events of 19th to 22nd April 1999,28th to 30th April 1999 and 14th to 18th May 1999) using GrADS 1.9b4 in FC5 OS machine. I would like to ask if it is possible to extract time series data (in text format) from each GrADS lat/lon grids in my 52 sq.km catchment located between lon 37<SUP>0</SUP>19¢08¢¢E and 37<SUP>0</SUP>24¢15¢¢E, and lat 3<SUP>0</SUP>04¢33¢¢S to 3<SUP>0</SUP>17¢14¢¢S at an elevation between 1000masl and 5895masl (the summit of Mt.Kilimanjaro). And also if it is possible to change the GrADS lat/lon grids into match with my model grid resolution. I understand the two
operations can be done under ArcView environment easly but then I dont know how one can convert grads data into arcview shapefiles. Please if you can help I should be very grateful.</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: SW">Kind regards,</SPAN></P>
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<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: SW">Fredrick</SPAN></P>
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<P><FONT color=#0000ff>MASHINGIA, Fredrick A. J. <BR><EM>M.Sc. Eng.</EM> (Cand.) <BR>University of Dar es Salaam. <BR>Republic Of Tanzania. <BR>Phone: +255 713 619 561 <BR>E-mail: fmashingia@yahoo.com <BR><FONT color=#000000>------------------------------------------------------</FONT><BR></FONT></P></td></tr></table><br>