<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks, but unfortunately, that did not help. I also raised that even thought file supposedly NetCDF, when I opened the file in panoply, it shows it being an HDF5 file, so I changed the DTYPEo </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">DTYPE hdf5_grid</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But get the same result as mentioned below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the output in panoply of this file:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h2 class="">       File "nws_precip_1day_conus.nc"
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      File type: Hierarchical Data Format, version 5
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    <pre class="">netcdf file:/Users/Stormchaser/Downloads/nws_precip_1day_conus.nc {
  dimensions:
    y = 881;
    x = 1121;
  variables:
    float percent_of_normal(y=881, x=1121);
      :_FillValue = -3.4028235E38f; // float
      :proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs";
      :grid_mapping = "crs";
      :name = "percent_of_normal";
      :coordinates = "x y";
      :long_name = "Percent of normal";
      :units = "Percent";
      :missing_value = -3.4028234663852886E38; // double
      :esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]";
      :_ChunkSizes = 881, 1121; // int

    double y(y=881);
      :units = "Meter";
      :long_name = "y coordinate of projection";
      :standard_name = "projection_y_coordinate";
      :_ChunkSizes = 881; // int

    float departure_from_normal(y=881, x=1121);
      :_FillValue = -3.4028235E38f; // float
      :proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs";
      :grid_mapping = "crs";
      :name = "departure_from_normal";
      :coordinates = "x y";
      :long_name = "Departure from normal";
      :units = "Inches";
      :missing_value = -3.4028234663852886E38; // double
      :esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]";
      :_ChunkSizes = 881, 1121; // int

    float normal(y=881, x=1121);
      :_FillValue = -3.4028235E38f; // float
      :proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs";
      :grid_mapping = "crs";
      :name = "normal";
      :coordinates = "x y";
      :long_name = "PRISM normals";
      :units = "Inches";
      :missing_value = -3.4028234663852886E38; // double
      :esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]";
      :_ChunkSizes = 881, 1121; // int

    float observation(y=881, x=1121);
      :_FillValue = -3.4028235E38f; // float
      :proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs";
      :grid_mapping = "crs";
      :name = "observation";
      :coordinates = "x y";
      :long_name = "Observation";
      :units = "Inches";
      :missing_value = -3.4028234663852886E38; // double
      :esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]";
      :_ChunkSizes = 881, 1121; // int

    int crs;
      :straight_vertical_longitude_from_pole = -105.0; // double
      :false_easting = 0.0; // double
      :standard_parallel = 60.0; // double
      :false_northing = 0.0; // double
      :grid_mapping_name = "polar_stereographic";
      :latitude_of_projection_origin = 90.0; // double
      :earth_radius = 6371200.0; // double
      :proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs";
      :crs_wkt = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Polar_Stereographic\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"latitude_of_origin\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]";
      :esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]";

    double x(x=1121);
      :units = "Meter";
      :long_name = "x coordinate of projection";
      :standard_name = "projection_x_coordinate";
      :_ChunkSizes = 1121; // int

  // global attributes:
  :creation_time = "20181022T195235";
  :data_time = "20181022";
  :Conventions = "CF-1.6";
}

</pre></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 22, 2018, at 11:15 PM, <a href="mailto:yaqiang.wang@gmail.com" class="">yaqiang.wang@gmail.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span class=""></span>You can try</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class="">PDEF 1121 881 nps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:399%201599%20-105.0%204.763" class="">399 1599 -105.0 4.763</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Regards</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Yaqiang</div><hr size="1" align="left" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 210px; height: 1px;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span class=""><div style="margin: 10px; font-family: verdana; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">*************************************************</span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">Dr. Yaqiang Wang</span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS)</span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">46, Zhong-Guan-Cun South Avenue</span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">Beijing, 100081</span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">China</span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21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            </span><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><a href="mailto:yaqiang.wang@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">yaqiang.wang@gmail.com</a><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><br style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class=""><a href="http://meteothink.org/" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" class="">http://www.meteothink.org</a></div><div style="margin: 10px;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);" class=""><u class=""><font color="#0000ff" class=""><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yaqiang_Wang5" class="">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yaqiang_Wang5</a></font></u></span><font face="verdana" size="2" class=""><span style="line-height: 19px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><span style="font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); line-height: 21px;" class="">**************************************************</span></div></span></div><blockquote style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 微软雅黑; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><div class=""> </div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;" class=""><div style="padding: 8px; font-size: 12px; font-family: tahoma; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239);" class=""><div class=""><b class="">From:</b> <a href="mailto:klevey@customweather.com" class="">Kevin Levey</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Date:</b> 2018-10-23 03:38</div><div class=""><b class="">To:</b> <a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" class="">GrADS Users Forum</a>;<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jadams21@gmu.edu" class="">Jennifer M Adams</a></div><div class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> [gradsusr] HRAP precipitation grid - UPGRADED 2018 version</div></div></div><div class=""><div class="FoxDiv20181023141218703775" style="word-wrap: break-word;">MON 22OCT18: 1230PDT<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi Jennifer,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was wondering if you could help me here. The HRAP data was updated on 27th JUN this year. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The CTL file that previously you helped Ryan with (below) no longer works. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">According to information from the HRAP page:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://water.weather.gov/precip/download.php" class="">https://water.weather.gov/precip/download.php</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><table xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" dir="ltr" border="1" class="" style="table-layout: fixed; font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, sans, sans-serif; width: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border: none;"><colgroup class=""><col width="157" class=""></colgroup><tbody class=""><tr class="" style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"The new QPE NetCDFs generated from the NCEP Stage IV data are CF-compliant multi-variable NetCDFs. The variables they contain are:"}" class="" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: Arial;"><div class="" style="white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 894px; left: 3px;"><div class="" style="float: left;">The new QPE NetCDFs generated from the NCEP Stage IV data are CF-compliant multi-variable NetCDFs. The variables they contain are:</div></div></td></tr><tr class="" style="height: 21px;"><td class="" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: hidden; padding: 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom;"></td></tr><tr class="" style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Band 1 - Observation- Last 24 hours of QPE spanning 12Z to 12Z in inches"}" class="" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"><div class="" style="white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 635px; left: 3px;"><div class="" style="float: left;">Band 1 - Observation- Last 24 hours of QPE spanning 12Z to 12Z in inches</div></div></td></tr><tr class="" style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Band 2 - PRISM normals- PRISM normals in inches (see \"Normal Precipitation\" section on the About page)"}" class="" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline;"><div class="" style="white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 635px; left: 3px;"><div class="" style="float: left;"><a class="in-cell-link" href="https://water.weather.gov/precip/about.php" target="_blank">Band 2 - PRISM normals- PRISM normals in inches (see "Normal Precipitation" section on the About page)</a></div></div></td></tr><tr class="" style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Band 3 - Departure from normal- The departure from normal in inches"}" class="" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"><div class="" style="white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 635px; left: 3px;"><div class="" style="float: left;">Band 3 - Departure from normal- The departure from normal in inches</div></div></td></tr><tr class="" style="height: 21px;"><td data-sheets-value="{"1":2,"2":"Band 4 - Percent of normal- The percent of normal"}" class="" style="border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(204, 204, 204) transparent rgb(204, 204, 204) rgb(204, 204, 204); overflow: visible; padding: 2px 0px; vertical-align: bottom; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"><div class="" style="white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 635px; left: 3px;"><div class="" style="float: left;">Band 4 - Percent of normal- The percent of normal</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is output from today’s 1-day conus file:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">ncdump -h /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/2018/10/22/nws_precip_1day_conus.nc</div><div class="">netcdf nws_precip_1day_conus {</div><div class="">dimensions:</div><div class="">        y = 881 ;</div><div class="">        x = 1121 ;</div><div class="">variables:</div><div class="">        int crs ;</div><div class="">                crs:straight_vertical_longitude_from_pole = -105. ;</div><div class="">                crs:false_easting = 0. ;</div><div class="">                crs:standard_parallel = 60. ;</div><div class="">                crs:false_northing = 0. ;</div><div class="">                crs:grid_mapping_name = "polar_stereographic" ;</div><div class="">                crs:latitude_of_projection_origin = 90. ;</div><div class="">                crs:earth_radius = 6371200. ;</div><div class="">                crs:proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs" ;</div><div class="">                crs:crs_wkt = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Polar_Stereographic\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"latitude_of_origin\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]" ;</div><div class="">                crs:esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]" ;</div><div class="">        float observation(y, x) ;</div><div class="">                observation:_FillValue = -3.402823e+38f ;</div><div class="">                observation:proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs" ;</div><div class="">                observation:grid_mapping = "crs" ;</div><div class="">                observation:name = "observation" ;</div><div class="">                observation:coordinates = "x y" ;</div><div class="">                observation:long_name = "Observation" ;</div><div class="">                observation:units = "Inches" ;</div><div class="">                observation:missing_value = -3.40282346638529e+38 ;</div><div class="">                observation:esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]" ;</div><div class="">        float normal(y, x) ;</div><div class="">                normal:_FillValue = -3.402823e+38f ;</div><div class="">                normal:proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs" ;</div><div class="">                normal:grid_mapping = "crs" ;</div><div class="">                normal:name = "normal" ;</div><div class="">                normal:coordinates = "x y" ;</div><div class="">                normal:long_name = "PRISM normals" ;</div><div class="">                normal:units = "Inches" ;</div><div class="">                normal:missing_value = -3.40282346638529e+38 ;</div><div class="">                normal:esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]" ;</div><div class="">        float departure_from_normal(y, x) ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:_FillValue = -3.402823e+38f ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs" ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:grid_mapping = "crs" ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:name = "departure_from_normal" ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:coordinates = "x y" ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:long_name = "Departure from normal" ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:units = "Inches" ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:missing_value = -3.40282346638529e+38 ;</div><div class="">                departure_from_normal:esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]" ;</div><div class="">        float percent_of_normal(y, x) ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:_FillValue = -3.402823e+38f ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:proj4 = "+proj=stere +lat_0=90 +lat_ts=60 +lon_0=-105 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6371200 +b=6371200 +units=m +no_defs" ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:grid_mapping = "crs" ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:name = "percent_of_normal" ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:coordinates = "x y" ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:long_name = "Percent of normal" ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:units = "Percent" ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:missing_value = -3.40282346638529e+38 ;</div><div class="">                percent_of_normal:esri_pe_string = "PROJCS[\"NOAA_HRAP_Grid\",    GEOGCS[\"GCS_NOAA_HRAP\",        DATUM[\"D_NOAA_HRAP\",            SPHEROID[\"Sphere\",6371200,0.0]        ],        PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0.0],        UNIT[\"Degree\",0.0174532925199433]    ],    PROJECTION[\"Stereographic_North_Pole\"],    PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0.0],    PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",-105.0],    PARAMETER[\"standard_parallel_1\",60.0],    UNIT[\"meter\",1.0]]" ;</div><div class="">        double x(x) ;</div><div class="">                x:units = "Meter" ;</div><div class="">                x:long_name = "x coordinate of projection" ;</div><div class="">                x:standard_name = "projection_x_coordinate" ;</div><div class="">        double y(y) ;</div><div class="">                y:units = "Meter" ;</div><div class="">                y:long_name = "y coordinate of projection" ;</div><div class="">                y:standard_name = "projection_y_coordinate" ;</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">// global attributes:</div><div class="">                :creation_time = "20181022T185215" ;</div><div class="">                :data_time = "20181022" ;</div><div class="">                :Conventions = "CF-1.6" ;</div><div class="">}</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I changed </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">amountofprecip=>pcp  1 y,x amountofprecip</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>to </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">observation=>precip  1 y,x Precip Observation</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Grads runs and produces this output:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">ga-> open /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/grads_ctl/hrap_conus.ctl</div><div class="">Scanning description file:  /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/grads_ctl/hrap_conus.ctl</div><div class="">Data file /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/2018/10/22/nws_precip_1day_conus.nc is open as file 1</div><div class="">LON set to -135 -60.05 </div><div class="">LAT set to 20 54.95 </div><div class="">LEV set to 1 1 </div><div class="">Time values set: 2018:10:22:0 2018:10:22:0 </div><div class="">E set to 1 1 </div><div class="">Notice: Implied interpolation for file /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/grads_ctl/hrap_conus.ctl</div><div class=""> Interpolation will be performed on any data displayed from this file</div><div class="">ga-> q file 1</div><div class="">File 1 : Gridded 4km x 4km HRAP 24-Hour Observed Rainfall ending 8AM ET</div><div class="">  Descriptor: /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/grads_ctl/hrap_conus.ctl</div><div class="">  Binary: /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/2018/10/22/nws_precip_1day_conus.nc</div><div class="">  Type = Gridded</div><div class="">  Xsize = 1500  Ysize = 700  Zsize = 1  Tsize = 1  Esize = 1</div><div class="">  Number of Variables = 1</div><div class="">     precip  1  y,x  Precip Observation</div><div class="">ga-> set gxout shaded</div><div class="">ga-> d precip</div><div class="">Notice:  Automatic Grid Interpolation Taking Place</div><div class="">Contouring: -3.3e+38 to 0 interval 3e+37 </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">but nothing is plotted - the map shows no data, only USA outline.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is my control file:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">DSET /mnt/modeldata/domModel/HRAP/rainfall/2018/10/22/nws_precip_1day_conus.nc</div><div class="">DTYPE netcdf </div><div class="">TITLE Gridded 4km x 4km HRAP 24-Hour Observed Rainfall ending 8AM ET</div><div class="">undef -1</div><div class="">PDEF 1051 813 nps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:388%201591" class="">388 1591</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-105.000000 4.7625</div><div class="">XDEF 1500 linear -135 0.05</div><div class="">YDEF 700 linear 20 0.05</div><div class="">ZDEF 1 linear 1 1</div><div class="">TDEF 1 linear 00:00Z22oct2018 1dy  </div><div class="">VARS 1</div><div class="">observation=>precip  1 y,x Precip Observation</div><div class="">ENDVARS</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Any help here would be much appreciated. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class="">Kevin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div class="">On Apr 18, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Jennifer Adams <<a href="mailto:jma@COLA.IGES.ORG" class="">jma@COLA.IGES.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hi, Ryan -- <div class="">I subtracted hrap.xor from 401 and hrap.yor from 1601 and now it seems to fit with this PDEF:</div><div class=""><div class="">pdef 1051 813 nps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:388%201591" class="">388 1591</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-105.000000 4.7625</div><div class="">xdef 1500 linear -135 0.05</div><div class="">ydef 700 linear 20 0.05</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note the new XDEF and YDEF axes do not need to match the size of the original grid; I used 0.05 degrees as a grid increment which kind of matches the native grid size, and made the axes big enough to cover the whole domain:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span id="cid:72EE7728-60EE-4D3C-B81F-20ADFAC2C4C9@SME" class=""><Screen Shot 2014-04-18 at 1.42.01 PM.png></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">--Jennifer</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">On Apr 9, 2014, at 5:14 PM, Maue, Ryan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite" class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.5em;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Greetings,<br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Does anyone have a control file handy for the netcdf files that are provided by NWS AHPS?  My control file is a little bit off.  The grid is the HRAP 4 km polar stereographic.<br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Any help or guidance would be great!<br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">I've uploaded an example here as well as the ascii output from the conversion program:<br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://models.weatherbell.com/news/nws_precip_conus_20140101.nc" id="lnk448130" class="">http://models.weatherbell.com/news/nws_precip_conus_20140101.nc</a><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://models.weatherbell.com/news/20140101.txt" id="lnk685508" class="">http://models.weatherbell.com/news/20140101.txt</a><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">Location of the NWS Precip page:</span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><a href="http://water.weather.gov/precip/" id="lnk839083" class="" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://water.weather.gov/precip/</a><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">​<br class=""></div><div class="">dset ^nws_precip_conus_20140101.nc</div><div class="">dtype netcdf</div><div class="">title amountofprecip</div><div class="">undef -1</div><div class="">pdef 1051 813 nps<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="tel:401%201601" class="">401 1601</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>-105.000000 4.7625</div><div class=""><div class="">xdef 1051 linear -131.402908 .06366019047619047619</div><div class="">ydef 813 linear  20.761557  .04260785837438423645</div><div class=""><div class="">ydef 813 linear  20.749580    0.04262164576</div><div class="">zdef 1 linear 1 1</div><div class="">tdef 1 linear 00:00Z01jan2014 1dy</div><div class="">vars 1</div><div class="">amountofprecip=>pcp  1 y,x amountofprecip</div><div class="">endvars<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RYAN MAUE<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br class=""></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">gradsusr mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" class="">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br class=""><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" class="">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-i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