<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 all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I know GrADS has the ability to convert regular numerical text to binary, which is ideal because while I can do it with Fortran, I’d prefer to be able to do everything in GrADS in one script. Before I get to the issue, here are the ‘q config’ data:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Built Fri Nov  9 13:38:49 MST 2012 for i686-pc-linux-gnu</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; min-height: 13px;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o Command line editing ENABLED </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html" class="">http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o printim command for image output ENABLED </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.zlib.net" class="">http://www.zlib.net</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html" class="">http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page" class="">http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o GRIB2 interface ENABLED </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.ijg.org" class="">http://www.ijg.org</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper" class="">http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2" class="">http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      g2clib-1.4.0  </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o NetCDF interface ENABLED </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf" class="">http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf</a>  </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      netcdf 4.1.2 of Oct  6 2011 13:44:26 $  </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o OPeNDAP gridded data interface ENABLED</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o OPeNDAP station data interface ENABLED</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html" class="">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      libgadap 2.0  </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o HDF4 and HDF5 interfaces ENABLED </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://hdfgroup.org" class="">http://hdfgroup.org</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      HDF 4.2r3 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      HDF5 1.8.7 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output ENABLED</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://www.libtiff.org" class="">http://www.libtiff.org</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://geotiff.osgeo.org" class="">http://geotiff.osgeo.org</a> </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o KML contour output ENABLED</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  o Shapefile interface ENABLED</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">      <a href="http://shapelib.maptools.org" class="">http://shapelib.maptools.org</a> </span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">Ok, so now on to the issue. Basically, I have some output written to a file called result.txt where each row is a latitude and each column is a longitude. Thus the file is 181 latitude x 360 longitude. It starts at -90 and ends at 90, 0 to 359 degrees longitude.  I have 21 time steps so a total of 3801 lines (181 * 21 = 3801). I use a simple script using fwrite to take each line and convert to binary. Below is the basic script (I have left out the dummy.ctl file for clarity):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(180, 36, 25);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #2eaebb" class="">file</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">'result.txt'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(180, 36, 25);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">'set gxout fwrite'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(180, 36, 25);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">'set fwrite result.bin'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(46, 174, 187);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">res</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">read</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">file</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(193, 101, 28);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c814c9" class="">rc</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sublin</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #2eaebb" class="">res</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(193, 101, 28);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">while</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c814c9" class="">rc</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(46, 174, 187);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">line</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">sublin</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">res</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">2</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(180, 36, 25);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">'d '</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #2eaebb" class="">line</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(46, 174, 187);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">res</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">read</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">file</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(193, 101, 28);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c814c9" class="">rc</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">=</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">sublin</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">(</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #2eaebb" class="">res</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">)</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(193, 101, 28);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">endwhile</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo; color: rgb(180, 36, 25);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">'disable fwrite'</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">When I run the above script, it seems to run fine. I get a file called result.bin with </span><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class="">15204 bytes. I then run the control file to try to plot the newly converted binary data:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Menlo; font-size: 11px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-family: Menlo;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">dset ^result</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">.</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">bin</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(180, 36, 25);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #000000" class="">undef </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">9.999E+20</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">title analog damage areas</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ydef </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">8</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> linear </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">-</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">90</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">xdef </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">360</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> linear </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">tdef </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">2</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> linear 06Z23SEP2020 6hr</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">zdef </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> linear </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">vars </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #850002; background-color: #e0e409" class="">1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">damage  </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">   </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #b42419" class="">0</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""> </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures; color: #c1651c" class="">**</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  areas where damage detected</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ENDVARS</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I then get the following error:</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ga-> set t 1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Time values set: 2020:9:23:6 2020:9:23:6 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">ga-> d damage</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Low Level I/O Error:  Read error on data file </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  Data file name = result.bin </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  Error reading 1440 bytes at location 14400 </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Data Request Error:  Error for variable 'damage'</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  Error ocurred at column 1</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">DISPLAY error:  Invalid expression </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">  Expression = damage</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">I can confirm that the original result.txt file contains 181 x 360 data points for 21 time steps. But the byte size of the binary file seems to be smaller than I would expect, maybe? I’ve tried much from the archives to try to figure this issue out but perhaps my understanding is lacking and I am now out of ideas. And just for reference, I can run result.txt through a Fortran script to convert to binary and the resulting file plots perfectly fine with the control file above. But like I said, it seems like I should be able to do the conversion in GrADS. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Thanks,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures" class="">Brad</span></div></span></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div></body></html>