<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am having trouble opening the globally-merged TRMM IR data files with grads. I recently downloaded all o f the files for June of 2006 from: <a href="http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&dataset=Global-merged%20IR%20Brightness%20Temperature%20Data&project=TRMM&dataGroup=Ancillary&version=001&CGISESSID=559e198c73b9961d223704eaaa07b51a">http://mirador.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/mirador/presentNavigation.pl?tree=project&dataset=Global-merged%20IR%20Brightness%20Temperature%20Data&project=TRMM&dataGroup=Ancillary&version=001&CGISESSID=559e198c73b9961d223704eaaa07b51a</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am using the script and .ctl file attached. In the script I desire to plot TRMM data and then plot lightning from the WWLLN.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have carefully checked to see that the files to be opened are in the correct paths:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am getting the following errors after running lightning_trmm_00zJune01.gs: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Open Error: Missing or invalid dimension starting value</span><br> --> The invalid description file record is: <br> --> TDEF 1000000 LINEAR 02z01June2006 30mn<br><br> The data file was not opened. <br>SET Error: No files open yet<br>SET Error: No files open yet<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The .ctl is in a format suggested by the following site: <a href="http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/precipitation/Globally_merged_IR.shtml">http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/precipitation/Globally_merged_IR.shtml</a><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestions on how to get the grads script to open the files would be great. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Jonathan Wynn Smith<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Student Trainee, WRF-Chem Modeling and Long-range transport<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><u>jonathan.smith@nasa.gov<o:p></o:p></u></p><p class=MsoNormal>NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Code 613.3-Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Branch <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Greenbelt, MD<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>301-614-5956<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Doctoral Candidate<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal>jw_smith@bison.howard.edu<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Howard University Program in Atmospheric Sciences<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>