Re: grads binary to netcdf

From: Dennis Shea <shea_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 13:05:40 -0600

Perhaps, better to askt the GrADS people this question :-)

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I think GFDL has a "grads2nc" tool available.

I have seen it being run on the NCAR machine "tempest".
However, I do not know ehere it is located.

Goos luck
D
Michael Notaro wrote:
> Hello. I have output from RegCM3 regional model in grads binary,
> along with
> the grads CTL file (shown below). It contains several variables. Is
> there a way
> in NCL (or grads) to convert this file to netcdf?
>
> Thanks, Mike
>
>
> dset ^ATM.2002080100
> title RegCM normal output variables
> options big_endian
> undef -1.e34
> pdef 49 32 lcc 45.39 13.48 24.50 16.00 30.00 60.00
> 13.48 60000. 60000.
> xdef 175 linear -9.61 0.2703
> ydef 78 linear 34.70 0.2703
> zdef 18 levels 1008.43 998.80 984.35 960.27 926.56 883.21 830.23
> 767.62 695.38 618.32 541.26 464.20 387.14 310.08 237.83 175.22 122.24
> 74.08
> tdef 124 linear 6z01aug2002 6hr
> vars 11
> u 18 0 westerly wind (m/s)
> v 18 0 southerly wind (m/s)
> w 18 0 omega (hPa/s) p-velocity
> t 18 0 air temperature (degree)
> qv 18 0 water vapor mixing ratio
> qc 18 0 cloud water mixing ratio
> psa 0 99 surface pressure (hPa)
> tpr 0 99 total precipitation(mm/day
> tgb 0 99 groud temperature in BATS
> swt 0 99 total soil water in mm H2O
> rno 0 99 accumulated infiltration
> endvars
>
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