Re: Quick Question about Reading NCEP Stage IV Data in NCL, Thanks!

Files with a *.Z extension have been compressed by the UNIX "compress"
program. Those files can be handled with the Unix "uncompress" program.
They nothing to do with NCL.

%> uncompress ST4.2004092016.01h.Z

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Also, please see the 'get_file_suffix' function

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/get_file_suffix.shtml

A slight variation of Ezample 2

    fName = "ST4.2004092016.01h.Z"
    suffix = get_file_suffix(fName, 0) ; ".Z"
    if (suffix.eq.".Z") then
        system("uncompress "+fName)
        fileName = suffix@fBase ; ST4.2004092016.01h
    else
        fileName = fName
    end if
    f = addfile(fileName, "r")

On 02/17/2010 09:51 AM, Xiaoming Sun wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have a question on reading NCEP Stage IV data.
>
> The data was downloaded from the following link
> http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=21.093
>
> Please find an example data, attached to this E-mail.
>
> These data have an extension name as .Z, does anybody know how to read
> it in NCL?
>
> Any input will be appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Xiaoming
>
>
>
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