<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 27, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Marsh, Kieren [FGUAE] wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div fpstyle="1" ocsi="0"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><div danaprelude="1"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">Can someone please explain to me how the bracketed notation works to extract data from a GDS. By this I mean the following:</font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><a href="http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z.ascii?htsgwsfc[0:20][0:40][110][72" target="_blank"><font color="#000000"><em><font face="Arial">http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z.ascii?htsgwsfc[0:20][0:40][110][72</font></em></font></a><font color="#000000"><em><font face="Arial">]</font></em><font face="Arial"></font></font></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><em><font face="Arial"></font></em> </div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">which extracts htsgwsfc over ensemble members 1-21 (0-20 when zero based), time values 0-40 at x=110 and y=72 and gives an ascii text file I can grab using something like wget.</font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">Am I able to use this kind of notation in GrADS scripts to access a chunk of data that I can define to a variable?</font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">e.g.</font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">'define myvar =<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><a href="http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z.ascii?htsgwsfc[0:20][0:40][110][72" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><em></em></font></a><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><em><a href="http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z.?htsgwsfc[0:20][0:40][110][72]'" target="_blank">http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z<u>.?htsgwsfc[0:20][0:40][110][72</u></a>]'</em></font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">All combinations I try don't work and I can't find any documentation on it.</font></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The way to do this is to open the URL, then set the dimension environment in GrADS, then define your variable. </div><div>Something like this:</div><div><br></div><div>'sdfopen <a href="http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z'">http://metserver:9090/dods/neww3/neww3.00z'</a></div><div>'set e 1 21'</div><div>'set t 1 41'</div><div>'set x 110'</div><div>'set y 72'</div><div>'myvar=htsgwsfc'</div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div fpstyle="1" ocsi="0"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: Tahoma; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; "><div danaprelude="1"><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">I have looked at the documentation for access using the curly bracket notation, e.g.:</font></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><a href="http://metserver:9090/dods/_expr_{neww3/neww3.t00z}{htsgwsfc}{73:73,111:111,1:1,00Z20MAY2014:00Z25MAY2014}" target="_blank"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><em>http://metserver:9090/dods/_expr_{neww3/neww3.t00z}{htsgwsfc}{73:73,111:111,1:1,00Z20MAY2014:00Z25MAY2014}</em></font></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">...but I don't seem to be able to capture the ensemble dimension using this format.</font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial">Any help will be greatly appreciated.</font></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><font face="Arial"></font> </p><div class="WordSection1"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; ">Kieren</span></b></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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