<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span><div>Can I open TRMM HDF files directly on the Grads? There is no file descriptor.</div><div>Sample file</div></span></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/ftp/data/s4pa//TRMM_L2/TRMM_2A25.6/2007/007/2A25.070108.52121.6.HDF.Z</div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" face="tahoma, 'new york', times, serif"><hr><b><div style="text-align:center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>PROF. DR. RANYÉRE SILVA NÓBREGA</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: normal;
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serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De:</span></b> Mubashar Dogar <mubashardogar@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Para:</span></b> gradsusr <gradsusr@gradsusr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Enviadas:</span></b> Domingo, 1 de Abril de 2012 5:11<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Assunto:</span></b> [gradsusr] GrDAS fails to interpret correctly a netcdf file.<br> </font> </div> <br>Dear GrADS Users,<br><br>I am attaching a netcdf file for you all to look at it. It's sea<br>surface temperature data (Jan 1950 to Dec 1951). I am just creating a<br>binary data for the same variable as it is and wanted to open it using<br>control ctl file for this binary. Binary data file is generated using<br>following grads script.<br><br>'reinit'<br>'sdfopen
sstGrads.mnmean.nc'<br>'set t 1 last'<br>'set gxout fwrite'<br>'set fwrite sst_1950-1951.dat'<br>'d sst'<br>'reinit'<br><br>my ctl file to open above GrADS generated file looks as follows:<br><br>dset sst_1950-1951.dat<br>title NOAA Extended Reconstructed SST V3b<br>undef -9.99e+08<br>xdef 181 linear 0 2<br>ydef 89 linear -88 2<br>zdef 1 linear 0 1<br>tdef 24 linear 00Z01JAN1950 1mon<br>vars 1<br>sst 0 99 Monthly Means of Sea Surface Temperature<br>endvars<br><br>Every thing that I did looks right but don't know why GrADS simply<br>screwed up to show the data properly. You can try it and let me know<br>what is missing.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Mubashar<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr"
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