<div dir="ltr">Hi all, <br><br>I am trying to create a .ctl file to ingest satellite-derived precipitation from the PERSIANN-CCS product. The data is hourly and in binary format. My .ctl file appears to somewhat read in the data, but it does not plot anything. <br><br>Here is the link to the data: <a href="ftp://persiann.eng.uci.edu/CHRSdata/PERSIANN-CCS/hrly/">ftp://persiann.eng.uci.edu/CHRSdata/PERSIANN-CCS/hrly/</a><div><br></div><div>Here is the link to the readme for the files: <a href="ftp://persiann.eng.uci.edu/CHRSdata/PERSIANN-CCS/hrly/readme.hrly">ftp://persiann.eng.uci.edu/CHRSdata/PERSIANN-CCS/hrly/readme.hrly</a></div><div><br></div><div>I've attached my .ctl file.... I've played around with the "units field" option in the VARS line but have had no luck. </div><div><br></div><div>Here is the output I get when opening the file:<br><br>




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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">ga-> open per4km.ctl<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Scanning description file:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">  </span>per4km.ctl</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Warning: OPTIONS keyword "template" is used, but the<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space">   </span>DSET entry contains no substitution templates.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Data file rgccs1h13058h%2.bin is open as file 1</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">LON set to 0 360<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">LAT set to -59.98 59.98<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">LEV set to 1 1<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Time values set: 2013:5:8:0 2013:5:8:0<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">E set to 1 1<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p>


<div><br></div><div>I don't have much experience with binary format so any help would be greatly appreciated!<br><br>Thank you,</div><div><br>Nick Luchetti</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Nicholas Luchetti</font></span><div><div><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Graduate Student<br>Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC)<br>CU Boulder <br></font><div style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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