<div dir="ltr"><div>As control files are unique to a given data set, I really can't send you a control file for your own data. That's on you to figure out. Use the GrADS user's manual description of how to construct a control file.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:40 PM Gevorgyan Artur <<a href="mailto:agm86@yandex.ru">agm86@yandex.ru</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear Jeff,</div><div> </div><div>Thanks for your help! Can you attach the examples of control files using the CHSUB templating (%ch)?</div><div> </div><div>Can I apply the same method for the zdef if I also have varying heights in my data? If yes, can you please send me the relevant example control file? </div><div> </div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Artur</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>29.04.2020, 18:08, "Jeff Duda" <<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>>:</div><blockquote><div><div>For netCDF, GrADS doesn't read the time from the file itself if you use a control file. So I would write a control file and then rename the files to some arbitrary interval that is close to the actual valid times of the files.</div><div> </div><div>If you need exact and non-constant timing, then you have two other options I can see</div><div>1) Use CHSUB templating (%ch) to manually type each time stamp into a single control file and then use the time index to loop over those.</div><div>2) If the times change frequently or writing them all out is too tedious, then you can use control <u>files</u> (plural) by using an external scripting source such as Linux shell scripting to loop over individual files, making a separate control file (or using sdfopen) to read/plot from each file in the loop.</div><div> </div><div>Jeff Duda</div></div> <div><div>On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 12:23 AM Gevorgyan Artur <<a href="mailto:agm86@yandex.ru" target="_blank">agm86@yandex.ru</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear Colleges,</div><div> </div><div>I have observed data with variable (not constant) observational time intervals. The data are in netcdf format, and the observational times are prescribed defined the time variable, and time:units = "seconds since 1970-01-01"? How can I plot my data using those observational times? </div><div> </div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Artur</div><div> </div>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a></blockquote></div><br><br>--<div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font size="2">Jeff Duda, Research Scientist</font></div><div>University of Colorado Boulder</div><div>Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences</div><div>NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Laboratory<br><font size="2">Boulder, CO</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> ,<p>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a></p></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>
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