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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I have the following question. In three separate files I have a variable x. Is there a way in GrADS that I can concatenate the variables into one variable? I need this variable x as one variable to derive a diurnal average of this variable. From the documentation I have seen that you can do this with sdfwrite, but this is a time-consuming workaround. There must be an easier way :-)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>I have come to the following statements already so that you have a feeling how the data is spread over the files.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>'set t 1 163'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>'define temp1=x.1'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>'set t 150 165'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>'define temp2=x.2'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>'set t 166 721'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>'define temp3=x.3'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Herbert ter Maat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Researcher Land-Atmosphere Interactions</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>ESS-CC (Earth System Science-Climate Change)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Alterra, Wageningen-UR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>PO Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Visiting address: Droevendaalsesteeg 4 (building 104), Wageningen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>tel: +31 317 486429<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>fax: +31 317 419000<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=FR style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>email: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="mailto:herbert.termaat@wur.nl" title="mailto:herbert.termaat@wur.nl"><span lang=FR style='color:blue'>herbert.termaat@wur.nl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:7.0pt'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>research: <a href="http://www.alterra.wur.nl/UK/research/Specialisation+Water+and+Climate/ESSCC"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.alterra.wur.nl/ESS-CC</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:8.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>education: <a href="http://www.ess.wur.nl/" title="http://www.ess.wur.nl/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.ess.wur.nl</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>