<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>Dear Grads Users,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>I have a *.nc file with several variables as shown below. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>ga-> q file<br>File 1 :<br> Descriptor: c:/Grads/output(5).nc<br> Binary: c:/Grads/output(5).nc<br> Type = Gridded<br> Xsize = 7 Ysize = 8 Zsize = 1 Tsize = 670 Esize = 1<br> Number of Variables = 10<br> u10
0 t,y,x 10 metre U wind component<br> v10 0 t,y,x 10 metre V wind component<br> d2m 0 t,y,x 2 metre dewpoint temperature<br> t2m 0 t,y,x 2 metre temperature<br> blh 0 t,y,x Boundary layer height<br> cape 0 t,y,x Convective available potential energy<br> cp 0 t,y,x Convective precipitation<br> parcs 0 t,y,x Clear sky surface photosynthetically active radiation<br> sund 0 t,y,x Sunshine duration<br> tcc 0 t,y,x Total cloud cover<br>ga-> d t2m<br>Contouring: 292 to 298.5 interval 0.5<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family:
HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>How can I convert such kind of a file to grads .ctl without changing the content</span>?</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">What if I have different pressure levels, can narropen.gs do such kind work? How?<br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"> <br></div><div><span style="font-family:garamond,
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