How to read a binary files with special file head?

Hi, Dave and Will,

I am reading a radar data with binary sequential format.

The radar head  in f90 file is as following:

 TYPE Radar_type
  character(len = 12) :: ZonName
 character(len = 38) :: DataName
 character(len = 8) :: Flag
 character(len = 8) :: Version
 
 integer(2) :: year
 integer(2) :: month
 integer(2) :: day
 integer(2) :: hour
 integer(2) :: minute
 integer(2) :: interval
 integer(2) :: XNumGrids
 integer(2) :: YNumGrids
 integer(2) :: ZNumGrids
 integer(4) :: RadarCount
 real(4) :: StartLon
 real(4) :: StartLat
 real(4) :: CenterLon
 real(4) :: CenterLat
 real(4) :: XReso
 real(4) :: YReso
 real(4) :: ZHighGrds(40)
 character(len = 16) :: RadarStationName(20)
 real(4) :: RadarLongitude(20)
 real(4) :: RadarLatitude(20)
 real(4) :: RadarAltitude(20)
 character(1) :: MosaicFlag1(20)
 
 character(len = 172) :: Reserved
 END TYPE Radar_type
      TYPE(Radar_Type) ::   radar

 

With fortran f90 code, reading the file will be ok.

read(1)radar

 

Now, I want to read the binary file with NCL language. But  I do not know how to read the head record.

 

Would you like to help me to solve the problem?

 

Yours, sincerely,