Re: help~

Hi Ribbon,

I believe you are correct. If you actually look at the code
for short2flt_hdf, it has:

  if (scale.eq.1.0 .and. offset.eq.0.) then
      xF = (/ xS /)
  else
      xF = scale*(xS - offset)
  end if

I believe just the documentation is incorrect. We'll fix this.

-Mary

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Libin Yan wrote:

> Dear teachers,
>
> the following page is the description of the function short2flt_hdf
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/short2flt_hdf.shtml
>
> it says
> x_float = x_short*(scale - offset)
>
> but after reading hdf-files headfile
> I think it should be
> x_float = scale *(x_short- offset)
>
> which is right?
> Waiting for your help~
>
> Best wishes!
>
> Yours sincerely Ribbon.
>
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