Dear Jeff,<div> This found to be more simple.......It is really nice......I have experimented with this and what i have done in opengrads is given below for reference....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<font color="#3366ff"><br></font></div><div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> sdfopen <a href="http://vwnd.1954.nc">vwnd.1954.nc</a> </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://vwnd.1954.nc">vwnd.1954.nc</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff">SDF file <a href="http://vwnd.1954.nc">vwnd.1954.nc</a> is open as file 1</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">LON set to 0 360 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">LAT set to -90 90 </font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff">LEV set to 1000 1000 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">Time values set: 1954:1:1:0 1954:1:1:0 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">E set to 1 1 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> set z 1</font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff">LEV set to 1000 1000 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> set lon 87</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">LON set to 87.5 87.5 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> set lat 10</font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff">LAT set to 10 10 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> set t 1 100</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">Time values set: 1954:1:1:0 1954:4:10:0 </font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> q file </font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff">File 1 : mean daily NMC reanalysis (1954)</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff"> Descriptor: <a href="http://vwnd.1954.nc">vwnd.1954.nc</a></font></div><div><font color="#3366ff"> Binary: <a href="http://vwnd.1954.nc">vwnd.1954.nc</a></font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff"> Type = Gridded</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff"> Xsize = 144 Ysize = 73 Zsize = 17 Tsize = 365 Esize = 1</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff"> Number of Variables = 1</font></div>
<div><font color="#3366ff"> vwnd 17 t,z,y,x mean Daily V wind</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff"><br></font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">ga-> fprintf vwnd vsample.txt</font></div><div><font color="#3366ff">wrote 100 values to file "vsample.txt"</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.....</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Sincerely<br>***********************************************<br>Jayakrishnan.P.R<br>CSIR-Senior Research Fellow<br>Department of Atmospheric Sciences<br>
Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin-682 016<br>Kerala, India.<br>Mob: 09895417565<br><br>***********************************************<br>
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