<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The problem is that the way the X axis is defined, it doesn't pass the 'wrap the globe' test. I made a small change to the XDEF statement, giving the initial value a little more precision, and used 'xdfopen' instead; that fixed the problem. While I was at it, I aliased 'temperature' because that is a rather long a variable name. Here is my descriptor file:<div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">dset <a href="http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/rtofs/rtofs_global20130425/rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast_daily_temp">http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/rtofs/rtofs_global20130425/rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast_daily_temp</a></span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">xdef lon 4320 linear 74.1599999 0.083333333333</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">vars 1</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">temperature=>t 33 t,z,y,x sea_water_potential_temperature (degc) </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">endvars</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Apr 24, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="msg-body inner undoreset" role="main" style=""><div id="yiv6653693396"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><span>Hi</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> I am trying to plot RTOFS data from nomads</span> GDS</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times,
serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><a href="http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/rtofs/rtofs_global20130423/rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast_daily_temp">http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/rtofs/rtofs_global20130423/rtofs_glo_3dz_nowcast_daily_temp</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;
font-style:normal;"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">The dimension part of the ctl data is as follows:</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">xdef 4320 linear 74.16 0.08333<br>ydef 2160 linear -90 0.08333<br><span class="yiv6653693396tab">
The data is in an xy grid starting from 74.16 degrees east and 90 south
with a resolution of 0.08333 degrees. Thus to set latitude and
longitude I have to calculate the xy range from this origin and cannot
define the range as</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> </span><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> set lon lon1
lon2</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> </span><span class="yiv6653693396tab">set lat lat1 lat2. </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab">
The second problem that arises is that I cannot plot across the
longitude origin, if I try to plot from say 70E to 80E it only plots
from 74.16 to 80 and if I plot from 430 to 480 it will only plot data
from 430 to 474.16.<br></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> Does anyone have an elegant solution or helpful hints to these
problems.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br><span class="yiv6653693396tab"></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> Many thanks</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> </span><span class="yiv6653693396tab"> Jean Pierre</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span class="yiv6653693396tab"><br></span> </div><div>-- <br>Jean Pierre
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