<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 25, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Isabella Bovolo wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br> Grid limits of file: X = 1 360 Y = 1 181 Z = 1 1 T = 1 1 E = 1 1<br> Grid limits of request: X = 1 361 Y = 1 181 Z = 1 1 T = 0 0 E = 1 1<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Your time dimension is set to the first time of the first file, but your second file is not defined at that time. </div><div><br></div><div>An excerpt from the doc page <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/variable.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/variable.html</a> : </div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; ">"When you specify a dimension in grid units, GrADS always converts it to world coordinates. In general, this conversion is done using the scaling of the <i>default file</i>. The only exception to this rule is in this case, when a grid coordinate (x, y, z, t, or e) is supplied within a <code>dimexpr</code> as part of a variable specification. In the case of this special exception, the conversion is done using the scaling for the file that variable is to be taken from."</span></div><div><br></div><div>ga-> d cp.2(t=1) </div><div><br></div><div>should give you the display you're looking for. </div><div><br></div><div>Your life would be a lot easier if you aggregate these data files together into a single using templating. </div><div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html</a></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><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></body></html>