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    Dear <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:
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      medium;">Jonathan,<br>
      <br>
      Our sample ctl is correct. Simply change June to Jun in your ctl
      and it should work. <br>
      <br>
      If you have further questions, please let us know.<br>
      <br>
      Regards,<br>
      <br>
      -Zhong<br>
    </span><br>
    On 3/3/2011 3:57 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102) wrote:
    <blockquote cite="mid:3A2F50C6-8E00-4FC0-BCE3-9CCA771FF7DE@nasa.gov"
      type="cite"><base href="x-msg://16/">Can you provide help with
      this message to the gradsusr mail list? &nbsp;Our control file for the
      Global-merged IR doesn't seem to be working for him.<br>
      <div><br>
        <div>Begin forwarded message:</div>
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          <div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
              'Helvetica'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>From:
              </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica';
              font-size: medium;">"SMITH, JONATHAN WYNN. (GSFC-6133)"
              &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:jonathan.smith@nasa.gov">jonathan.smith@nasa.gov</a>&gt;<br>
            </span></div>
          <div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
              'Helvetica'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Date:
              </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica';
              font-size: medium;">March 3, 2011 12:13:51 PM MST<br>
            </span></div>
          <div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
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              </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica';
              font-size: medium;">"<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a>"
              &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a>&gt;<br>
            </span></div>
          <div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
              'Helvetica'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Subject:
              </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica';
              font-size: medium;"><b>[gradsusr] (no subject)</b><br>
            </span></div>
          <div style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family:
              'Helvetica'; font-size: medium; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Reply-To:
              </b></span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica';
              font-size: medium;">GrADS Users Forum &lt;<a
                moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a>&gt;<br>
            </span></div>
          <br>
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                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Hello,<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">I am having trouble
                  opening the globally-merged TRMM IR data files with
                  grads.&nbsp; I recently downloaded all o f the files for
                  June of 2006 from: &nbsp;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&amp;dataset=Global-merged%20IR%20Brightness%20Temperature%20Data&amp;project=TRMM&amp;dataGroup=Ancillary&amp;version=001&amp;CGISESSID=559e198c73b9961d223704eaaa07b51a"
                    style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&amp;dataset=Global-merged%20IR%20Brightness%20Temperature%20Data&amp;project=TRMM&amp;dataGroup=Ancillary&amp;version=001&amp;CGISESSID=559e198c73b9961d223704eaaa07b51a</a><o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">I am using the
                  script and .ctl file attached.&nbsp; In the script I desire
                  to plot&nbsp; TRMM data and then plot lightning from the
                  WWLLN.<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">I have carefully
                  checked to see that the files to be opened are in the
                  correct paths:<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">I am getting the
                  following errors after running
                  lightning_trmm_00zJune01.gs:<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><span
                    style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New
                    Roman',serif;">Open Error:&nbsp; Missing or invalid
                    dimension starting value</span><br>
                  &nbsp; --&gt; The invalid description file record is:<span
                    class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>
                  &nbsp; --&gt; TDEF 1000000&nbsp; LINEAR&nbsp;&nbsp; 02z01June2006 30mn<br>
                  <br>
                  &nbsp; The data file was not opened.<span
                    class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>
                  SET Error:&nbsp; No files open yet<br>
                  SET Error:&nbsp; No files open yet<br>
                  <br>
                  <o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">The .ctl is in a
                  format suggested by the following site:<span
                    class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/precipitation/Globally_merged_IR.shtml"
                    style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/precipitation/Globally_merged_IR.shtml</a><br
                    clear="all">
                  <o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Any suggestions on
                  how to get the grads script to open the files would be
                  great.<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Thanks<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><b><span
                      style="font-size: 14pt;">Jonathan Wynn Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><i>Student Trainee,
                    WRF-Chem Modeling and Long-range transport<o:p></o:p></i></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><u><a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:jonathan.smith@nasa.gov"
                      style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">jonathan.smith@nasa.gov</a><o:p></o:p></u></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">NASA-Goddard Space
                  Flight Center<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Code
                  613.3-Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Greenbelt, MD<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">301-614-5956<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><i>Doctoral
                    Candidate<o:p></o:p></i></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:jw_smith@bison.howard.edu"
                    style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">jw_smith@bison.howard.edu</a><o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Howard University
                  Program in Atmospheric Sciences<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;">Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></div>
                <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;
                  font-family: Calibri,sans-serif;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></div>
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    <br>
    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Zhong Liu, Ph.D.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Zhong.Liu-1@nasa.gov">Zhong.Liu-1@nasa.gov</a>
George Mason University and
NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and
Information Services Center
NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2
Greenbelt. MD. 20771  U.S.A.
(301) 614-5764 (voice)
(301) 614-5268 (fax)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov">http://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/">http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/Giovanni/tovas/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/trmm_quikscat_analysis.shtml">http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hurricane/trmm_quikscat_analysis.shtml</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/agriculture/ais_sup/current_conditions.shtml">http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/agriculture/ais_sup/current_conditions.shtml</a></pre>
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