<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br><div>Alan Robock, Professor II</div><div>Department of Environmental Sciences</div><div>Rutgers University</div><div>14 College Farm Road</div><div>New Brunswick, NJ 08901</div><div><br></div>Sent from my iPhone. +1-732-881-1610</div><div><br>On Oct 22, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Jennifer Adams <<a href="mailto:jma@COLA.IGES.ORG">jma@COLA.IGES.ORG</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Alan, <div>Can you be more specific about what the problem is? Is it PDEF-related? Where did you get the data and the descriptor file? </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 21, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Alan Robock wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Friends,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A student, Anthony DeAngelis, and I are trying to download monthly mean</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NARR fields and read them with GrADS.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We downloaded a climatology file, cpc_rr_mon.1979-2001.clim.06, and the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">grads control and index files, cpc_rr_mon.1979-2001.clim.ctl and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cpc_rr_mon.1979-2001.clim.idx, but could not get GrADS to make</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">reasonable plots.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We got hints from Wesley, but still could not get it</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">to work.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone done this, and could they tell us what to do, particularly</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">how to modify the .ctl file to get it to work?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thanks.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alan</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Alan Robock, Professor II</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Director, Meteorology Undergraduate Program</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Associate Director, Center for Environmental Prediction</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Department of Environmental Sciences<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Phone: +1-732-932-9800 x6222</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Rutgers University<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fax: +1-732-932-8644</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">14 College Farm Road <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>E-mail: <a href="mailto:robock@envsci.rutgers.edu"><a href="mailto:robock@envsci.rutgers.edu">robock@envsci.rutgers.edu</a></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>USA<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock"><a href="http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock">http://envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock</a></a></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; 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text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org"><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></div></blockquote></body></html>