<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Of course you can open a binary file with GrADS. You need to write a descriptor file that describes the grid first. Please see: <div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutgriddeddata.html#descriptor">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/aboutgriddeddata.html#descriptor</a></div><div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html</a></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On May 29, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Mohsen Soltani wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
I've downloaded TRMM hourly dataset, and gonna open it in GrADS. Since the data format is in binary (bin), I can't open it! The data is: 3B42RT.2009033112.7R2</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Would you please let me know how to open it in GrADS? How can I convert it to a NetCDF (nc) format?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mohsen</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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some are weather-wise some are otherwise!</div><div>--<br>Best Wishes, <br>(Mr.) Mohsen Soltani<br>Climatology Grad Student (M.Sc.),<br>Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran<br>
Tel: (+98) 9119772934<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:soltani.clima@gmail.com" target="_blank">soltani.clima@gmail.com</a><br></div></div></div>
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