<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 6, 2010, at 12:13 AM, Geeta Geeta wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font>ga-> open stn.ctl<br>Scanning description file: stn.ctl<br>Open Error: Can't open Station/Index map file rain.map<br> --> The invalid description file record is:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br> --> stnmap rain.map<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You must run stnmap to create the index file before GrADS can open your descriptor file. </div><div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradutilstnmap.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradutilstnmap.html</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">I Further need to convert this Rainfall into the Gridded one using the OACRES Function.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br></div></blockquote><div>The use of the oacres() function is documented here:</div><div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradfuncoacres.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradfuncoacres.html</a></div><div><br></div></div>--Jennifer</body></html>