<div dir="ltr"><div>I don't think GrADS is capable of reading in text and converting it to a map that you can then display. You'd have to convert the text data to some file format that grads <b>can</b> read, such as binary, GRIB(2), netCDF, or HDF first, then read that file in.<br><br></div>Jeff Duda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 3:22 PM, Bimal Gyawali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bml.gya@gmail.com" target="_blank">bml.gya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div>I have data in the following format. Can anyone please tell me how can I write it out using grads so that I can plot it in time series as well as in spatial domain?</div><div> Time</div><div><table style="border-collapse:collapse;width:528pt" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="704">
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</tr></tbody></table><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000">Thank you.</font></span></b></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Bimal Gyawali</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br>
Graduate Research Assistant<br>
Department of Physical and Environment Science<br>
Natural Resources Centre<br>
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi<br>
Corpus Christi, TX 78412<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:435-881-3603" value="+14358813603" target="_blank">435-881-3603</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></i></p></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Jeff Duda<br>Post-doctoral research associate<br>University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology<br></div></div></div>
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