<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div class="" style="">Hi,</div><div class="" style=""> I am pretty new to grads, and trying to create a control file for the following data characteristics, and everything looks very confusing to me. It is monthly sst data from 1870 to 2014. Would greatly appropriate help in creating a control file from the information provided below so i read the data in grads.</div><div class="" style=""> Cordially</div><div class="" style=""> Mark</div><div class="" style=""> University of Yaounde-Cameroon</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><h2 class="" style=""> File
"HadISST_sst.nc"
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Dataset type: NetCDF-3/CDM
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</div><pre class="" style="">netcdf file:/C:/Users/Alloh/Desktop/Open_grads/HadISST_sst.nc {
dimensions:
time = UNLIMITED; // (1734 currently
latitude = 180;
longitude = 360;
nv = 2;
variables:
float time(time=1734);
:units = "days since 1870-1-1 0:0:0";
:calendar = "gregorian";
:long_name = "Time";
:standard_name = "time";
float time_bnds(time=1734, nv=2);
float latitude(latitude=180);
:units = "degrees_north";
:long_name = "Latitude";
:standard_name = "latitude";
float longitude(longitude=360);
:units = "degrees_east";
:long_name = "Longitude";
:standard_name = "longitude";
float sst(time=1734, latitude=180, longitude=360);
:_FillValue = -1.0E30f; // float
:standard_name = "sea_surface_temperature";
:long_name = "sst";
:units = "C";
:cell_methods = "time: lat: lon: mean";
:missing_value = -1.0E30f; // float
// global attributes:
:Title = "Monthly version of HadISST sea surface temperature component";
:description = "HadISST 1.1 monthly average sea surface temperature";
:institution = "Met Office Hadley Centre";
:source = "HadISST";
:reference = "Rayner, N. A., Parker, D. E., Horton, E. B., Folland, C. K., Alexander, L. V., Rowell, D. P., Kent, E. C., Kaplan, A. Global analyses of sea surface temperature, sea ice, and night marine air temperature since the late nineteenth century J. Geophys. Res.Vol. 108, No. D14, 4407 10.1029/2002JD002670";
:Conventions = "CF-1.0";
:history = "5/8/2014 converted to netcdf from pp format";
:supplementary_information = "Updates and supplementary information will be available from http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisst";
:comment = "Data restrictions: for academic research use only. Data are Crown copyright see (http://www.opsi.gov.uk/advice/crown-copyright/copyright-guidance/index.htm)";
}
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