<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Please send the output from ncdump -c on your netcdf file. --Jennifer<div><br><div><div>On Sep 18, 2011, at 2:39 PM, Mubashar Dogar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Dear GrADS users,<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"> <div dir="ltr"><br>I am facing a problem with time steps of a netcdf file downloaded for synoptic monthly means of ECMWF ERA-INTERIM forecast product for the year 1989 (downloaded for surface total precipitation for all time steps available from: <a href="http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/interim_mnth/" target="_blank">http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/interim_mnth/</a>). This file is basically synoptic monthly means generated by long term average of corresponding 3 hour in all the days of a month, giving 8 time steps in a month. So instead of reading 96 values that represents to 12 months (8 values in each months) GrADS read all these values by considering 8 time steps in a day instead in a month. I mean GrADS reads these hours in a daily format instead of monthly. Does GrADS not deal with synoptic monthly means? I have grib file as well for the same data, what should be time increment in a ctl file to open the same grib file?<div> <br><font color="#888888"><br>Mubashar Dogar<br> </font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div><br><br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>