<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You can use the PDEF GENERAL (aka PDEF FILE) option to tell GrADS how to map each grid point in your 1-D vector into a 2-D lat/lon grid. Please see <a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/pdef.html">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/pdef.html</a> <div>The example at the bottom of the page does something very similar to what you'd like to do. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Sep 9, 2009, at 7:03 AM, Reto Stauffer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hy there<br><br>I try to plot some Satellite-Data with Grads. It was "no problem" to produce a<br>netCDF file wich i can import into GrADS and display the test-dataset.<br><br>But now i have a question up to you. Normaly GrADS plots only onto a linear<br>Grid. My netCDF-File only contains a one-line-vector with longitude and<br>latitude boundries.<br><br>Is there any possibility to import long/lat as a 2-D matrix wich discribes my<br>own grid? I cannot found any good information about that.<br><br>Test-Dataset, int [0;10] with own colormap:<br><a href="http://dudecom.ch/satpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090909_grads_colormapexample-543x400.png">http://dudecom.ch/satpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/20090909_grads_colormapexample-543x400.png</a><br><br>If anyone has an idea it wold be great to send me a request.<br><br>Best regards<br>Reto, Austria<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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; 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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><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; 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; "><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; 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>--</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">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>