<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Dear Jose,<div><br></div><div>Looking at the contour values, it seems like you have the wrong undef value. Try using:</div><div><br></div><div>undef -9.99e8</div><div><br></div><div>See if that helps.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>Eric L. Altshuler<br>Research Scientist<br>Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies<br>253 Research Hall, Mail Stop 6C5<div>George Mason University</div><div>4400 University Drive<br>Fairfax, VA 22030 USA<br><br>E-mail: ela@cola.iges.org<br>Phone: (703) 993-5725<br>Fax: (703) 993-5770</div><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><b>From: </b>"Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga" <veiga.uea@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>"GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 29, 2014 9:32:00 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[gradsusr] Problems with plotting<br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear users of GrAds,<div><br></div><div>I am facing problems to plot rainfall data extracted from CPC source.</div><div><br></div><div style="">As I use fortran programs to deal with some specific calculations sometimes I need to extract data from some source and record it in a bin file to be read in my fortran programs.</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">This time, after I'd selected rainfall data from a CPC ctl I get some problems to visualise the data. The figure is attached. I believe I have to include some specific option in OPTIONS of my CTL.</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">Helps and suggestions will be very appreciative.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">Thanks </div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">My CTL file is:</span></div>
<div style=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div style=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><div><b>dset prec-cpc-1980-2000.bin</b></div>
<div><b>title global daily analysis (grid box mean, the grid shown is the center of the grid box)</b></div><div><b>options little_endian</b></div><div><b>undef -999.0</b></div><div><b>xdef 720 linear 0.25 0.50</b></div>
<div><b>ydef 360 linear -89.75 0.50</b></div><div><b>zdef 1 linear 1 1</b></div><div><b>tdef 12 linear 01jan1979 1dy</b></div><div><b>vars 1</b></div><div><b>rain 1 00 the grid analysis (0.1mm/day)</b></div><div><b>ENDVARS</b></div>
<div><br></div><div style="">The original CTL were I had extracted the data is:</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><div><b>dset %y4/PRCP_CU_GAUGE_V1.0GLB_0.50deg.lnx.%y4%m2%d2</b></div><div><b>title global daily analysis (grid box mean, the grid shown is the center of the grid box)</b></div>
<div><b>options little_endian template</b></div><div><b>undef -999.0</b></div><div><b>xdef 720 linear 0.25 0.50</b></div><div><b>ydef 360 linear -89.75 0.50</b></div><div><b>zdef 1 linear 1 1</b></div><div><b>tdef 12419 linear 01jan1979 1dy</b></div>
<div><b>vars 2</b></div><div><b>rain 1 00 the grid analysis (0.1mm/day)</b></div><div><b>gnum 1 00 the number of stn</b></div><div><b>ENDVARS</b></div></div><div><br></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>
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