<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 installed Grads in Linux - Ununtu version, using the following command:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"sudo apt-get install grads" . And then, to find out where the Grads has been installed in Linux, in terminal I typed: "whereis grads", then the Grads directory appeared something like this: "usr/share... etc.". I copied the grads into my home directory. And then, typed "grads" in terminal and grads opened. Next, I did "!ls" and the following data were shown:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">grads <a href="http://hgt.nc">hgt.nc</a> <a href="http://slp.nc">slp.nc</a> <a href="http://air.nc">air.nc</a> and other things...</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style>And I wanted to open a NetCDF file, say: <a href="http://hgt.nc">hgt.nc</a>. Therefore, I typed "<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">sdfopen <a href="http://hgt.nc">hgt.nc</a> ", but the following error appeared: (that's interesting to know that, when I typed sdfopen hg...., I hit the Tab, and the rest of the text appeared automatically):</font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://hgt.nc">hgt.nc</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "kt" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 90, overrides prefixed-unit "1000000 kilogram"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "microns" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 308, overrides prefixed-unit "1e-15 second"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "ft" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 405, overrides prefixed-unit "1e-12 kilogram"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "yd" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 413, overrides prefixed-unit "8.64e-20 second"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "pt" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 634, overrides prefixed-unit "1e-09 kilogram"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "at" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 1031, overrides prefixed-unit "1e-15 kilogram"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "ph" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 1549, overrides prefixed-unit "3.6e-09 second"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Definition of "nt" in "/usr/share/xml/udunits/udunits2-common.xml", line 1556, overrides prefixed-unit "1e-06 kilogram"</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">gadsdf: Error parsing time units in SDF file.</font></div>
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<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I tried to open another data:</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">*********</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ga-> sdfopen <a href="http://slp.nc">slp.nc</a> </font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://slp.nc">slp.nc</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Success</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Couldn't get converter from seconds</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units in different unit-systems</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Success</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Couldn't get converter from seconds</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Success</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Couldn't get converter from seconds</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">gadsdf: Error parsing time units in SDF file.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ga-> </font></div>
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<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">Scanning self-describing file: <a href="http://airtemperature.nc">airtemperature.nc</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ut_get_converter(): Units not convertible</font></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">gadsdf: Error parsing time units in SDF file.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#0000ff">ga-> </font></div>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">***************</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As you see, none of them opened! Wondering why? Does anyone know what's going wrong? And what should I do to open a NetCDF (.nc) file in Grads in Linux machine?</div>
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Mohsen</div><div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)"></span></span><span><span dir="RTL" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(136,136,136)" lang="AR-SA"><span></span></span></span>--<div>
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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