<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What exactly do you mean by "the display falls apart"? What is the ncdump output? What does the rest of your descriptor file look like? What version of GrADS are you using? If the grid coordinates (lat and lon) are 1-dimensional, then you should be able to open this with GrADS without having to create a PDEF file.<div>---Jennifer</div><div><br><div><br><div><br><div><div><div>On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:37 PM, Andrew Friedman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi Roberto,<br><br>Jennifer Adams has written some scripts which I believe can process such CMIP5 ocean data. See this posting from the listserve:<br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2013-January/017089.html">http://gradsusr.org/pipermail/gradsusr/2013-January/017089.html</a><br><br>Andrew<br><br>On Feb 11, 2014, at 7:54 AM, Roberto Mera <RMera@ucsusa.org> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">All,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The CMIP5 natural GHG run for BCC model (tos_Omon_bcc-csm1-1_historicalGHG_r1i1p1_185001-201212.nc) has very strange coordinates with 232 ydef (latitude) but a linear 1deg longitude. I have tried defining ydef with levels but the display falls apart after the interval in the latitude stops being every 1 degree. Here’s an ncdump of the latitude data:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ydef 232 levels -81.5 -80.5 -79.5 -78.5 -77.5 -76.5 -75.5 -74.5 -73.5 -72.5 -71.5 -70.5 -69.5 -68.5 -67.5 -66.5 -65.5 -64.5 -63.5 -62.5 -61.5 -60.5 -59.5 -58.5 -57.5 -56.5 -55.5 -54.5 -53.5 -52.5 -51.5 -50.5 -49.5 -48.5 -47.5 -46.5 -45.5 -44.5 -43.5 -42.5 -41.5 -40.5 -39.5 -38.5 -37.5 -36.5 -35.5 -34.5 -33.5 -32.5 -31.5 -30.5 -29.5 -28.500913619995 -27.50820732117 -26.523630142212 -25.552488327026 -24.596292495726 -23.660039901733 -22.744861602783 -21.855302810669 -20.991981506348 -20.158876419067 -19.355987548828 -18.586631774902 -17.850109100342 -17.149007797241 -16.481884002686 -15.850565910339 -15.252840995789 -14.689778327942 -14.158419609070 -13.659105300903 -13.188179016113 -12.745319366455 -12.326250076294 -11.930083274841 -11.552030563355 -11.190753936768 -10.841084480286 -10.50137138367 -10.166210174561 -9.8337898254395 -9.4995431900024 -9.1671237945557 -8.8328762054443 -8.5004568099976 -8.1662101745606 -7.8337903022766 -7.4995431900024 -7.1671237945557 -6.8328766822815 -6.5004572868347 -6.1662101745606 -5.8337907791138 -5.499543666840 -5.1671242713928 -4.8328766822815 -4.5004572868347 -4.1662101745606 -3.8337910175324 -3.499543666840 -3.1671242713928 -2.8328771591187 -2.5004577636719 -2.1662104129791 -1.8337911367416 -1.4995439052582 -1.167124509811 -0.83287727832794 -0.50045788288117 -0.16621069610120 0.16620869934560 0.50045591592789 0.83287531137466 1.1671224832535 1.4995418787003 1.8337891101837 2.1662085056305 2.5004556179047 2.8328750133514 3.1671223640442 3.4995417594910 3.83378887176514 4.16620826721191 4.50045537948608 4.83287477493286 5.16712188720703 5.49954128265381 5.83378887176514 6.16620826721191 6.50045537948608 6.83287477493286 7.16712188720703 7.49954128265381 7.83378839492798 8.16620826721191 8.50045490264893 8.8328742980957 9.16712188720703 9.49954128265381 9.83378791809082 10.1662120819092 10.501368522644 10.8410863876343 11.1907510757446 11.5520324707031 11.9300804138184 12.3262519836426 12.7453165054321 13.1881809234619 13.6591024398804 14.1584215164185 14.6897754669189 15.2528429031372 15.8505630493164 16.4818859100342 17.1490058898926 17.8501110076904 18.5866279602051 19.3559894561768 20.1588745117188 20.9919834136963 21.8552989959717 22.7448635101318 23.6600379943848 24.5962944030762 25.5524845123291 26.5236320495605 27.5082054138184 28.5009155273438 29.4999961853027 30.5000038146973 31.4999961853027 32.5000038146973 33.4999961853027 34.5000038146973 35.4999961853027 36.5000038146973 37.4999961853027 38.5000038146973 39.4999961853027 40.5000038146973 41.4999961853027 42.5000038146973 43.4999961853027 44.5000038146973 45.4999961853027 46.5000038146973 47.4999961853027 48.5000038146973 49.4999961853027 50.5000038146973 51.4999961853027 52.5000038146973 53.4999961853027 54.5000038146973 55.4999961853027 56.500003814697 57.499996185303 58.500003814697 59.499996185303 60.500003814697 61.4999961853027 62.500003814697 63.499996185303 64.5 65.5 66.5 67.5 68.5 69.5 70.5 71.5 72.5 73.5 74.5 75.5 76.5 77.5 78.5 79.5 80.5 81.5 82.5 83.5 84.5 85.5 86.5 87.5 88.5 89.5<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">xdef is 360 linear -279.5 1<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Robert<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gradsusr mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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