<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>Srivatsan,</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>Thank you for your help, xconv has worked well but I have noted that it is not it indictaing coordinates limits of the data. How can I do this?</span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Charles Langton Vanya</span></span></span><br><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;"><span
style="font-style:italic;">(Principal Meteorologist)</span></span></span><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services,</span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">Regional Government Offices-(Next to Immigration Office),</span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Box 1808</span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span
style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Blantyre,</span></span><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> Malawi</span></span><br></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:16px;"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;">Tel: (+ 265) 1 822 014</span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span
style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;">Cell: (+265) 888 980 545 / 999 380 545<br></span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-style:normal;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;">Fax: (+265) 1 822 215</span></span></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;"><span style="font-size:16px;">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><font size="3"><span style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace,
sans-serif;"><br></span></font></font></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:16px;font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-style:normal;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color:rgb(0, 0, 191);"><span style="color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4"><font size="3"><span style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;">"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand"</span></font></font></span></span></span><br></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, January 22, 2014 7:26 AM, Srivatsan Vijayaraghavan
<tmsvs@nus.edu.sg> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4429854585"><style>#yiv4429854585 #yiv4429854585 --
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {font-family:Helvetica;panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {font-family:Tahoma;panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {font-family:Garamond;panose-1:2 2 4 4 3 3 1 1 8 3;}
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {panose-1:2 5 6 4 5 5 5 2 2 4;}
#yiv4429854585
#yiv4429854585 p.yiv4429854585MsoNormal, #yiv4429854585 li.yiv4429854585MsoNormal, #yiv4429854585 div.yiv4429854585MsoNormal
{margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:12.0pt;}
#yiv4429854585 a:link, #yiv4429854585 span.yiv4429854585MsoHyperlink
{color:blue;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv4429854585 a:visited, #yiv4429854585 span.yiv4429854585MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{color:purple;text-decoration:underline;}
#yiv4429854585 span.yiv4429854585EmailStyle17
{color:blue;}
#yiv4429854585 .yiv4429854585MsoChpDefault
{font-size:10.0pt;}
_filtered #yiv4429854585 {margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
#yiv4429854585 div.yiv4429854585WordSection1
{}
#yiv4429854585 </style><div><div class="yiv4429854585WordSection1"><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Dear Charles,</span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">You can use ‘xconv’. See this: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/xconv/">http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/xconv/</a></span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">It’s a small software…1 min to download and run.</span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Open the netcdf, choose option ‘GrADS’- Apply-Convert.</span></div><div
class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Yes, it works if you have multiple pressure levels.</span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Hope this helps.</span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Cheers,</span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Sri</span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="">Dr. Srivatsan V RAGHAVAN, Senior Research Fellow, Tropical Marine Science
Institute, National University of Singapore, 18 Kent Ridge Road, S2S, Singapore 119227. Phone: +65 84083020; Email: <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tmsvs@nus.edu.sg" target="_blank" href="mailto:tmsvs@nus.edu.sg">tmsvs@nus.edu.sg</a> <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tmsvs@nus.edu.sg" target="_blank" href="mailto:tmsvs@nus.edu.sg">mailto:tmsvs@nus.edu.sg</a>> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span><span style=""></span></div></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv4429854585yqt5025207674" id="yiv4429854585yqt90993"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Charles Vanya<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 1:03 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] How to combine several variables using NARROPEN.GS</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Dear Grads Users,</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">I have a *.nc file with several variables as shown below. </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">ga-> q file<br clear="none">File 1 :<br clear="none"> Descriptor: c:/Grads/output(5).nc<br clear="none"> Binary: c:/Grads/output(5).nc<br clear="none"> Type = Gridded<br clear="none"> Xsize = 7 Ysize = 8 Zsize = 1 Tsize = 670 Esize = 1<br clear="none"> Number of Variables = 10<br
clear="none"> u10 0 t,y,x 10 metre U wind component<br clear="none"> v10 0 t,y,x 10 metre V wind component<br clear="none"> d2m 0 t,y,x 2 metre dewpoint temperature<br clear="none"> t2m 0 t,y,x 2 metre temperature<br clear="none"> blh 0 t,y,x Boundary layer height<br clear="none"> cape 0 t,y,x Convective available potential energy<br clear="none"> cp 0 t,y,x Convective precipitation<br clear="none"> parcs 0 t,y,x Clear sky surface photosynthetically active radiation<br clear="none"> sund 0 t,y,x Sunshine duration<br clear="none"> tcc 0 t,y,x
Total cloud cover<br clear="none">ga-> d t2m<br clear="none">Contouring: 292 to 298.5 interval 0.5</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">How can I convert such kind of a file to grads .ctl without changing the content?</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">What if I have different pressure levels, can narropen.gs do such kind work? How?</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="">Charles Langton Vanya</span></b><span style=""><br clear="none"></span><i><span style="">(Principal Meteorologist)</span></i><span style=""><br
clear="none">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="">Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="">Regional Government Offices-(Next to Immigration Office),</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Box 1808</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Blantyre, Malawi</span><span style=""><br clear="none"><span style="background:white;">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div
class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">Tel: (+ 265) 1 822 014</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Cell: (+265) 888 980 545 / 999 380 545</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;">Fax: (+265) 1 822 215</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal"><span style="">----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span><span style=""></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4429854585MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="">"Tell me and I'll forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand"</span><span
style=""></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>