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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>> From: gradsusr-request@gradsusr.org<br>> Subject: gradsusr Digest, Vol 39, Issue 64<br>> To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:08:26 -0400<br>> <br>> Send gradsusr mailing list submissions to<br>>         gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> <br>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br>>         http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br>>         gradsusr-request@gradsusr.org<br>> <br>> You can reach the person managing the list at<br>>         gradsusr-owner@gradsusr.org<br>> <br>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>> than "Re: Contents of gradsusr digest..."<br>> <br>> <br>> Today's Topics:<br>> <br>> 1. Re: How to open a bin file in GrADS? (Jayakrishnan P.R)<br>> 2. Re: How to open a bin file in GrADS? (Mohsen Soltani)<br>> 3. Re: How to open a bin file in GrADS? (Jayakrishnan P.R)<br>> 4. plot one more beautiful picture (Chinh ta huu)<br>> 5. Re: plot one more beautiful picture (Mohsen Soltani)<br>> 6. Higher resolution for GeoTIFFs (Matthias Jaros)<br>> 7. Grads 2.0.2 pre-build binaries for x64 (Matthias Jaros)<br>> 8. MODIS AEROSOL PRODUCTS (Joshua Ngaina)<br>> <br>> <br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 1<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:32:54 +0530<br>> From: "Jayakrishnan P.R" <prjayakrishnan@gmail.com><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] How to open a bin file in GrADS?<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID:<br>>         <CA+P5ZEEHNS+AV5j2Jjc9x5kmSG8V36q9CG177gyspKJmozfJdg@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> The corresponding ctl file will be there in the same folder in which you<br>> downloaded. Incorporate the .bin file into .ctl file. Then open the ctl<br>> file using grads.<br>> <br>> -<br>> Sincerely<br>> ***********************************************<br>> Jayakrishnan.P.R<br>> Teaching Associate (Atmospheric Science)<br>> Academy of Climate Change Education and Research<br>> Kerala Agricultural University<br>> Vellanikkara-680 656<br>> <br>> and also<br>> <br>> Research Fellow (Part Time)<br>> Department of Atmospheric Sciences<br>> CUSAT, Cochin-682 016<br>> Kerala, India.<br>> Mob: 09496026547<br>> <br>> ***********************************************<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20130529/2f343def/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 2<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 02:19:50 -0700<br>> From: Mohsen Soltani <soltani.clima@gmail.com><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] How to open a bin file in GrADS?<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID:<br>>         <CAPoCDiMtEVAi50+qEt3EbtjdryrpiB8jr8Xm7iNBpifisXfS8A@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Dear Jayakrishnan,<br>> <br>> Thanks for your suggestion. Here is the link that I downloaded the data:<br>> ftp://trmmopen.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/merged<br>> <br>> and also:<br>> ftp://trmmopen.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/merged/3B42RT<br>> <br>> There is no such a thing there! Could you provide more information? Is<br>> there an alternative link/site to download TRMM hourly dataset?<br>> <br>> <br>> Thank you,<br>> Mohsen<br>> <br>> <br>> --<br>> some are weather-wise some are otherwise!<br>> --<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: soltani.clima@gmail.com<br>> <br>> <br>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:02 AM, Jayakrishnan P.R<br>> <prjayakrishnan@gmail.com>wrote:<br>> <br>> > The corresponding ctl file will be there in the same folder in which you<br>> > downloaded. Incorporate the .bin file into .ctl file. Then open the ctl<br>> > file using grads.<br>> ><br>> > -<br>> > Sincerely<br>> > ***********************************************<br>> > Jayakrishnan.P.R<br>> > Teaching Associate (Atmospheric Science)<br>> > Academy of Climate Change Education and Research<br>> > Kerala Agricultural University<br>> > Vellanikkara-680 656<br>> ><br>> > and also<br>> ><br>> > Research Fellow (Part Time)<br>> > Department of Atmospheric Sciences<br>> > CUSAT, Cochin-682 016<br>> > Kerala, India.<br>> > Mob: 09496026547<br>> ><br>> > ***********************************************<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > gradsusr mailing list<br>> > gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> > http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> ><br>> ><br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20130529/ad9d2f13/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 3<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 14:55:18 +0530<br>> From: "Jayakrishnan P.R" <prjayakrishnan@gmail.com><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] How to open a bin file in GrADS?<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID:<br>>         <CA+P5ZEH0rg16hWk9ch3JR4=cy82iJ8wY2Ob-qfemasdFYaUMeQ@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Here is a link for 3 hourly and daily which I told earlier....have a<br>> look...Best of Luck...<br>> <br>> ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/3B42_V6 ( for 3 hourly)<br>> ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM<br>> /Gridded/Derived_Products/3B42_V6/Daily (daily<br>> <br>> -<br>> Sincerely<br>> ***********************************************<br>> Jayakrishnan.P.R<br>> Teaching Associate (Atmospheric Science)<br>> Academy of Climate Change Education and Research<br>> Kerala Agricultural University<br>> Vellanikkara-680 656<br>> <br>> and also<br>> <br>> Research Fellow (Part Time)<br>> Department of Atmospheric Sciences<br>> CUSAT, Cochin-682 016<br>> Kerala, India.<br>> Mob: 09496026547<br>> <br>> ***********************************************<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20130529/72e9fc33/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 4<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 16:26:37 +0700<br>> From: Chinh ta huu <chinhth2010@gmail.com><br>> Subject: [gradsusr] plot one more beautiful picture<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID:<br>>         <CAHiZ=QO5kMfh=9=rr-_mnreDFd1_cKJ0KphZE3ur-SrbDWtK2A@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Dear all users,<br>> <br>> I'd like to export one picture with high pixel to make it more beautiful.<br>> Anyone show me please? I can use printim command or others.<br>> <br>> Thank you very much<br>> Chinh<br>> <br>> -- <br>> (Mr.) Ta Huu Chinh<br>> National, Weather Forecasting Center, Ha Noi, Viet Nam.<br>> No: 4th, Dang Thai Than, Hoan Kiem, Ha Noi<br>> Tel: 84-903-298-856<br>> Office: 84-43-824-4917<br>> Email: chinhth2010@gmail.com<br>> Website: http://vn.myblog.yahoo.com/chinhth2005/<br>> Website: http://bestknowledge-chinhth.blogspot.com/<br>> Website: http://anhcuoidep.vn<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20130529/b7e6fbf9/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 5<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 02:39:57 -0700<br>> From: Mohsen Soltani <soltani.clima@gmail.com><br>> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] plot one more beautiful picture<br>> To: GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>> Message-ID:<br>>         <CAPoCDiNGY+yFvCUvmfUELkV+CT8o2VDQXq8MJtSB7O9iQ-Q61w@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> Hello Chinh,<br>> <br>> Use the following script:<br>> ****************************************************<br>> 'enable print *filename*'<br>> 'print'<br>> 'disable print'<br>> '!gxeps -c -i *filename*1 -o E:/*filename*.eps'<br>> ***********************<br>> This will create a PostScript file. And you need to have a GSview to make a<br>> beautiful picture! in say JPEG, GIF etc., with a high resolution e.g. 72,<br>> 300 and/or even 600!<br>> <br>> Mohsen<br>> <br>> --<br>> some are weather-wise some are otherwise!<br>> --<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: soltani.clima@gmail.com<br>> <br>> <br>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:26 AM, Chinh ta huu <chinhth2010@gmail.com> wrote:<br>> <br>> > Dear all users,<br>> ><br>> > I'd like to export one picture with high pixel to make it more beautiful.<br>> > Anyone show me please? I can use printim command or others.<br>> ><br>> > Thank you very much<br>> > Chinh<br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > (Mr.) Ta Huu Chinh<br>> > National, Weather Forecasting Center, Ha Noi, Viet Nam.<br>> > No: 4th, Dang Thai Than, Hoan Kiem, Ha Noi<br>> > Tel: 84-903-298-856<br>> > Office: 84-43-824-4917<br>> > Email: chinhth2010@gmail.com<br>> > Website: http://vn.myblog.yahoo.com/chinhth2005/<br>> > Website: http://bestknowledge-chinhth.blogspot.com/<br>> > Website: http://anhcuoidep.vn<br>> ><br>> > _______________________________________________<br>> > gradsusr mailing list<br>> > gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> > http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> ><br>> ><br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20130529/d25f52bf/attachment-0001.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 6<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 11:56:13 +0200<br>> From: Matthias Jaros <jaros@vesseltracker.com><br>> Subject: [gradsusr] Higher resolution for GeoTIFFs<br>> To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> Message-ID: <51A5D0BD.4030102@vesseltracker.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed<br>> <br>> Dear grads users,<br>> <br>> is there a possibility to create GeoTIFFs with larger resolution? I am <br>> using the GeoTIFFs later on to render image tiles using Mapnik and you <br>> can see every pixel very clearly on larger zoom levels because of the <br>> low resolution of the tiff file.<br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 7<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 13:48:41 +0200<br>> From: Matthias Jaros <jaros@vesseltracker.com><br>> Subject: [gradsusr] Grads 2.0.2 pre-build binaries for x64<br>> To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> Message-ID: <51A5EB19.20800@vesseltracker.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed<br>> <br>> Hello grads users,<br>> <br>> does anybody have pre compiled binaries of grads 2.0.2 for 64 bit <br>> systems? (ubuntu)<br>> <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> Message: 8<br>> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:08:24 -0400<br>> From: Joshua Ngaina <jngaina@gmail.com><br>> Subject: [gradsusr] MODIS AEROSOL PRODUCTS<br>> To: gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> Cc: jngaina <jngaina@students.uonbi.ac.ke><br>> Message-ID:<br>>         <CAO_vWM2go3gEvNONTy_kaL17iy94pV5wpcx5ooUvSsj9Y7nmNQ@mail.gmail.com><br>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<br>> <br>> *Dear All,<br>> <br>> *<br>> *I have daily MODIS aerosol products (Small mode fraction).<br>> <br>> *<br>> *I wanted to merge these files using CDO but it seemed the files were not<br>> merged. *<br>> <br>> met@met-HP-Compaq-6000-Pro-MT-PC:/media/BERTH/MODIS_DAILY$ cdo mergetime<br>> *.nc ALLMOD08.nc<br>> cdo mergetime: Processed 4147200 values from 64 variables over 32<br>> timesteps. ( 0.18s )<br>> *<br>> So to check one of the files, I used grads and I got this error: DF file has<br>> no discernable time coordinate -- using default values*.<br>> <br>> ga-> sdfopen<br>> MOD08_D3.A2001001.051.2010286151047.pscs_000500504418.Optical_Depth_Ratio_Small_Land_And_Ocean_Mean.G3.nc<br>> Scanning self-describing file:<br>> MOD08_D3.A2001001.051.2010286151047.pscs_000500504418.Optical_Depth_Ratio_Small_Land_And_Ocean_Mean.G3.nc<br>> SDF file has no discernable time coordinate -- using default values.<br>> SDF file<br>> MOD08_D3.A2001001.051.2010286151047.pscs_000500504418.Optical_Depth_Ratio_Small_Land_And_Ocean_Mean.G3.ncis<br>> open as file 1<br>> LON set to 0 360<br>> LAT set to -89.5 89.5<br>> LEV set to 0 0<br>> Time values set: 1:1:1:0 1:1:1:0<br>> E set to 1 1<br>> ga-> q file<br>> File 1 :<br>> Descriptor:<br>> MOD08_D3.A2001001.051.2010286151047.pscs_000500504418.Optical_Depth_Ratio_Small_Land_And_Ocean_Mean.G3.nc<br>> Binary:<br>> MOD08_D3.A2001001.051.2010286151047.pscs_000500504418.Optical_Depth_Ratio_Small_Land_And_Ocean_Mean.G3.nc<br>> Type = Gridded<br>> Xsize = 360 Ysize = 180 Zsize = 1 Tsize = 1 Esize = 1<br>> Number of Variables = 2<br>> optical_depth_l 0 y,x Aerosol Optical Thickness at 0.55 microns for<br>> both Ocean (best) and Land (corrected): Mean<br>> optical_depth_r 0 y,x Ratio of small mode aerosol optical depth at<br>> 0.55 micron for both land and ocean: Mean<br>> *<br>> *<br>> *I also checked the merged netcdf file *<br>> <br>> ga-> sdfopen ALLMOD08.nc<br>> Scanning self-describing file: ALLMOD08.nc<br>> SDF file has no discernable time coordinate -- using default values.<br>> SDF file ALLMOD08.nc is open as file 1<br>> LON set to 0 360<br>> LAT set to -89.5 89.5<br>> LEV set to 0 0<br>> Time values set: 1:1:1:0 1:1:1:0<br>> E set to 1 1<br>> ga-> q file<br>> File 1 :<br>> Descriptor: ALLMOD08.nc<br>> Binary: ALLMOD08.nc<br>> Type = Gridded<br>> Xsize = 360 Ysize = 180 Zsize = 1 Tsize = 1 Esize = 1<br>> Number of Variables = 2<br>> optical_depth_l 0 y,x Aerosol Optical Thickness at 0.55 microns for<br>> both Ocean (best) and Land (corrected): Mean<br>> optical_depth_r 0 y,x Ratio of small mode aerosol optical depth at<br>> 0.55 micron for both land and ocean: Mean<br>> <br>> *I also noted that the dimension of both files were the same.<br>> <br>> *<br>> *My major problem is with many files of this type, How do I merge this<br>> files for analysis with GrADs. Please advise<br>> *<br>> *<br>> *<br>> *<br>> Regards and Thanks,*<br>> <br>> Joshua Ngaina<br>> -------------- next part --------------<br>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>> URL: http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/attachments/20130529/dfd339cd/attachment.html <br>> <br>> ------------------------------<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gradsusr mailing list<br>> gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br>> <br>> <br>> End of gradsusr Digest, Vol 39, Issue 64<br>> ****************************************<br></div>                                            </div></body>
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