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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Heiner,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Which platform of GrADS 2.x does not open netCDF “older” files? What is the version of the netCDF file that it cannot open? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John Huddleston, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Heiner Körnich<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 08, 2010 6:06 AM<br><b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] netCDF control file<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Hi Deniz,<br><br>you don't nead a ctl-file to open a netcdf-file in grads. If your file follows the COARDS-standard, then you can open it with 'sdfopen <a href="http://ures.nc">ures.nc</a>'. If grads won't recognise it, you might want to try an older grads-version. We had some problems here with grads 2.0 and netcdf.<br><br>If grads still won't open your file, you can write a ctl-file and try to open that with the command 'xdfopen'. The ctl-file looks a bit different from standard ctl-files, look here:<br><a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdxdfopen.html">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdxdfopen.html</a><br><br>Then, you would need the output from ncdump in order to know what is inside the netcdf-file. Alternatively you can use the climate data operators (CDO) with the command "cdo sinfo <a href="http://ures.nc">ures.nc</a>".<br>Or in matlab, if you have the mexnc-package installed, you read the information with <br>info=nc_info('<a href="http://ures.nc">ures.nc</a>')<br>Then you can access all details in info.<br><br>Finally, if it is only you who will use the data, it might be simpler to write binary output in matlab and use a standard ctl.<br><br>Kind regards from Stockholm,<br>Heiner<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Deniz Demirhan Bari <<a href="mailto:bari@iap-kborn.de">bari@iap-kborn.de</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Dear Grads users, </span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I have calculated residual wind components in MATLAB and saved them in netCDF file. Now I want to read them in grads but I cannot create a netcdf control file.</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><pre>I tried to get the output of ncdump but my computer doesn’t recognize ncdump although I installed it. <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre>I am using the latest version of Grads on a Suse Linux computer. <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></pre><pre>My attempt to create a ctl file is below: <span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>*</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>DSET ^<a href="http://ures.nc" target="_blank">ures.nc</a></span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>DTYPE netCDF</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>XDEF 96 LINEAR 0.000000 3.750000</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>YDEF 48 LEVELS -87.159 -83.479 -79.777 -76.070 -72.362 -68.652</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> -64.942 -61.232 -57.521 -53.810 -50.099 -46.389</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> -42.678 -38.967 -35.256 -31.545 -27.833 -24.122</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> -20.411 -16.700 -12.989 -9.278 -5.567 -1.856</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> 1.856 5.567 9.278 12.989 16.700 20.411</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> 24.122 27.833 31.545 35.256 38.967 42.678</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> 46.389 50.099 53.810 57.521 61.232 64.942</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> 68.652 72.362 76.070 79.777 83.479 87.159</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ZDEF 114 LINEAR 1 1</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>TDEF 1 LINEAR 00:00Z00jan0000 1mn</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>OPTIONS yrev</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>UNDEF -9e+33</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>VARS 1</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ures 114 1,100 ures</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>ENDVARS</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>* </span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks in advance</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Deniz DEMIRHAN BARI</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt'>Leibniz-Institut für Atmosphärenphysik e.V.<br>an der Universität Rostock<br>Schlossstraße 6<br>18225 Kühlungsborn</span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt'> </span><span lang=DE><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br clear=all><br>-- <br>Heiner Körnich <br>Dept. of Meteorology Tel: +46 8 164333<br>Stockholms University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden<br>Email: <a href="mailto:heiner@misu.su.se">heiner@misu.su.se</a> <a href="http://www.misu.su.se/~heiner/">www.misu.su.se/~heiner/</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>