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<p class="MsoNormal">What is the error GrADS is showing you? Have you read this documentation: http://cola.gmu.edu/grads/gadoc/SDFdescriptorfile.html?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">-- <span style="color:black"><br>
Jennifer Miletta Adams<br>
ADNET Systems, Inc.<br>
NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">gradsusr <gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org> on behalf of Muhammad Dogar <mubashardogar@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 2:02 AM<br>
<b>To: </b>gradsusr <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"mubashardogar@yahoo.com" <mubashardogar@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] [gradsusr] Fwd: How to open the attached netcdf file<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Gradsusr support team, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I would like to open the attached netcdf file, however, it is giving errors in GrADS. I downloaded this attached netcdf file from the following link
<a href="https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/strataer/" target="_blank">https://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/strataer/</a> (this belongs to 2nd figure on this page). It would be really helpful if someone could provide a GrADS readable ctl file.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Following is the output of ncdump -h command:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">ncdump -h <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__tau-5Fmap-5F2012-2D12.nc&d=DwMFaQ&c=ApwzowJNAKKw3xye91w7BE1XMRKi2LN9kiMk5Csz9Zk&r=M2mFZsxo0ZoztoK2Lyoypu1kKkBVKyEoM9CXGWO42zk&m=QCquPDzQSD1DITtco2jseoBex7i6SRT8Jl6SnRXOmrk&s=DFzzk_IwcSPaqKcJpN8QvUOkmyneT-9dBBeqYv_cW2M&e=" target="_blank">
tau_map_2012-12.nc</a> <br>
netcdf tau_map_2012-12 {<br>
dimensions:<br>
level = 4 ;<br>
lat = 24 ;<br>
month = 1956 ;<br>
bnds = 2 ;<br>
variables:<br>
float level(level) ;<br>
level:long_name = "level" ;<br>
level:units = "km" ;<br>
level:positive = "up" ;<br>
level:bnds = "level_bnds" ;<br>
float level_bnds(level, bnds) ;<br>
float lat(lat) ;<br>
lat:long_name = "latitude" ;<br>
lat:standard_name = "latitude" ;<br>
lat:units = "degrees_north" ;<br>
int month(month) ;<br>
month:long_name = "middle day in month" ;<br>
month:units = "days since 1850-01-01 00:00:00" ;<br>
month:bounds = "month_bnds" ;<br>
int month_bnds(month, bnds) ;<br>
int tau_lvl(month, level, lat) ;<br>
tau_lvl:long_name = "zonal mean aerosol optical depth of level at 550 nm" ;<br>
tau_lvl:scale_factor = 0.0001 ;<br>
tau_lvl:add_offset = 0. ;<br>
tau_lvl:_FillValue = 9999 ;<br>
int tau(month, lat) ;<br>
tau:long_name = "zonal mean stratospheric aerosol optical depth at 550 nm" ;<br>
tau:scale_factor = 0.0001 ;<br>
tau:add_offset = 0. ;<br>
tau:_FillValue = 9999 ;<br>
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// global attributes:<br>
:Conventions = "CF-1.1" ;<br>
:title = "Stratospheric Aerosol Optical Depth at 550 nm" ;<br>
:institution = "NASA Goddard Institute for Space Sciences" ;<br>
:source = "<a href="http://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/strataer/" target="_blank">http://data.giss.nasa.gov/modelforce/strataer/</a>" ;<br>
:history = "Converted from ASCII file tau.map_2012.12.txt to netCDF on 2016-11-14. / rbs" ;<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Could you kindly help me how can I open it and get it working?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you and best regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mubashar<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Muhammad Mubashar Dogar<br>
Scientific Officer (Climatology Section),<br>
Global Change Impact Studies Centre (GCISC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">email: <a href="mailto:mubashardogar@gmail.com" target="_blank">
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<p class="MsoNormal"> <a href="mailto:mubashardogar@yahoo.com" target="_blank">
mubashardogar@yahoo.com</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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