On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Somsubhra chattopadhyay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:som.agrotech@gmail.com">som.agrotech@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br clear="all"><div>Hi everyone</div><div><br></div><div>I am a pretty new user of OpenGrADS. I would need to convert my climate projections from GCM and RCM's which are in NetCdf format to text format in order to make them acceptable for SWAT model. I have tried using the ncdump command but it gave me error like : unknown command: ncdump.</div>
<div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Very likely, the output of ncdump is not what the SWAT model expects.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div></div><div>Could anyone kindly help me in the process so that I can convert the files to my desired format.</div><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You will likely need to do some programming to accomplish this task. Start by understanding the specific format expected by your model. Then take a look at this recipe and adapt it as needed:</div>
<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-002:_Saving_GrADS_variable_data_to_a_text_file">http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-002:_Saving_GrADS_variable_data_to_a_text_file</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>If you know python, this recipe may be useful:</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-003:_Using_PyGrADS_to_save_variable_data_to_a_text_file">http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Recipe-003:_Using_PyGrADS_to_save_variable_data_to_a_text_file</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>All of this assumes that your netcdf file can be read by grads.</div><div><br></div><div> Good Luck,</div><div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div></div><div>Best Regards</div><div>Somsubhra</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>
<br></div>-- <br>Thanks and Regards,<br>
Somsubhra Chattopadhyay<br>Graduate Research Assistant<br>Water Resource Research Group<br>Department of Civil Engineering<br>North Carolina A&T State University<br>Greensboro, North Carolina<br>Email: <a href="mailto:schattop@aggies.ncat.edu" target="_blank">schattop@aggies.ncat.edu</a><br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>