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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi all,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I've seen similar posts about this before, but I'm struggling to create a data descriptor file from an ascat data file (example data file attached).</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I've read the following on the xdfopen command and had a go at creating a .ctl file, but I haven't had any success:</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdxdfopen.html">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradcomdxdfopen.html</a></div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The variables I plan to use are 'wind_speed' and 'wind_dir'.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Attached is the output after running 'ncdump –h ascat_20140130_003300_metopa_37781_eps_o_250_2200_ovw.l2.nc'</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The version of grads I'm running is 2.0.a7.1.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Any guidance would be much appreciated. </div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,</div>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Sam</div>
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