<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div style="" class=""><span style="" class="">Dear grads users,</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">I have a monthly precipitation data from CRU covering the period 1901-2006.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">I have selected a period within the time series using cdo as follow</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">example: cdo
seltimestep,10/130 cru.nc output.nc</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">when I try to open the output.nc with grads I have this message<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">scanning self-describing file: output.nc<br style="" class="">gadsdf: SDF file has no discernable X coordinate.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times
new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">when I check with: <br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">ncdump -c output.nc</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">I have something like that:<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">netcdf output {<br style="" class="">dimensions:<br style="" class=""> x = 194 ;<br style="" class=""> y = 201 ;<br style="" class=""> time = UNLIMITED ; // (120 currently)<br style="" class=""> nb2 = 2 ;<br style="" class="">.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">.<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">data:<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""> time = 29599, 29630, 29658, 29689, 29719, 29750, 29780, 29811, 29842, 29872, <br style="" class=""> 29903, 29933, 29964, 29995, 30023, 30054, 30084, 30115, 30145, 30176, <br style="" class=""> 30207, 30237, 30268, 30298, 30329.....</span></div><div class=""
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">}</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">I note that the longitude and latitude don't appear but the time appears. It is like the operation on cdo has</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">removed the longitude and
latitude.<br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""></span><br style="" class=""><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">NB: I can open the original file (the one with the complet time series) with grads without any problem.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;"><span style="" class="">Can anybody help me, thanks in advance.</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class="">Adam Bamba<br style="" class=""></span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="" class=""><br style="" class=""></span></div><div
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