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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you all for your help. H Ooi, your help really helped me; by including ‘options yrev’ - I could open with correct projection. I have separate file for each time step so I will have to make a loop to open all the files. For anyone who is trying to open modis hdf, I am re-writing the complete script for everyone’s reference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>dset ^./MYD08_D3.A2003121.005.2007081003101.hdf<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>options yrev<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>xdef XDim:mod08 360 linear -180.0 1.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>ydef YDim:mod08 180 linear -90.0 1.0<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>vars 3<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Deep_Blue_Aerosol_Optical_Depth_550_Land_Mean=>od_550 0 y,x Optical depth at 0.55 microns for land (corrected): Mean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Deep_Blue_Aerosol_Optical_Depth_550_Land_Standard_Deviation=>od_550_sd 0 y,x Optical depth at 0.55 microns for land (corrected): Standard Deviation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Deep_Blue_Aerosol_Optical_Depth_550_Land_Minimum=>od_550_min 0 y,x Optical depth at 0.55 microns for land (corrected): Minimum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>endvars <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Sagar Prasad Parajuli<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Graduate Student/Research Assistant<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>University of Texas at Austin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Jackson School of Geosciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>1 University Station C1100, JGB 5.322<br>Austin, TX 78712<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Contact: <a href="mailto:psagar@utexas.edu"><span style='color:#E36C0A'>psagar@utexas.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#E36C0A'>Cell: 512 965 4093<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><img border=0 width=80 height=40 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CDC639.2E4B6160" alt=texas-longhorn-logo><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>See Hai Ooi<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 19, 2012 2:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] opening modis hdf files<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi Sergey,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> Thank you for your help shown to Sagar. I think the .ctl file should look like as attached (yrev is needed in options). However, I have one question. The data refers to only one time step. How should I modify the file name (....A2003121.005.2007....hdf => the processing time differs from file to file) and tdef correspondingly if there are several time steps (say, 121, 122, 123 etc as in day of year perpetual calendar) ?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> Best regards.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Ooi<o:p></o:p></p></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>