<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">The following is the suggestion given by Dr. Wang when I need. Hope it is helpful to you....</span><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br>
</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">You can make GrADS maskout data easily using MeteoInfo software which is freely available at </span><a href="http://www.meteothinker.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">http://www.meteothinker.com/</a><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"> .</span><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">1. Run MeteoInfo and load 'country1.shp' shape file as a polygon layer (step_1.png).</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">
<br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">2. Zoom the map to Kenya. Press 'Select Features' tool and select Kenya. The selected feature will be viewed as yellow color (step_2.png).</div>
<div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">3. Press 'Tools -> Output Map Data' menu, and set 'Map Layer' as 'country1.shp' and 'Output Format' as 'GrADS Maskout File'. The selected feature of Kenya is setting in 'Output Shapes' area automaticly (step_3.png).</div>
<div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">4. Press 'Output' button and give the output GrADS maskout file name, and then set the output grid in appeared dialog. Click 'OK' button to finish the process (step_4.png). You should set the grid as same as your data.</div>
<div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">In the result maskout data, the values of the grid points inside Kenya were set as 1 and the others were set as -1 (result.png). You may also need to change the 'TDEF' in maskout ctl file as same as your data. Of course, the maskout data of any region can be created with this method if the polygon shape file is available</div>
</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Please let me know if there are any issues with this..</div>
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Regards,</div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">Kishore</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Kishore Ragi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kishoreragi@gmail.com" target="_blank">kishoreragi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Maity,<div><br></div><div>Irregular domain mean? Any kind of country average? This is so simple if you have a shape file of your interested area. Please let me know what kind of area average you want so that I may help you..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Kishore</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Suman Maity <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:suman.buie@gmail.com" target="_blank">suman.buie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">Dear<br>All grads users<br>This is Suman Maity from IIT Kharagpur, India. I want to discuss a problem and i
am requesting you all that if you have any solution or suggestion then please
help me.<br>As we know in grads there is command for area average (aave)
to get area average for a rectangular domain. Now as per my knowledge
there is no choice for the irregular domain. how to find the area
average for a irregular domain? is there any software/command/method? I
can't get any idea to develop that. Please provide any idea in this
context.<br>
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