Re: reading remss binary data in ncl

Hi Samir,

In answer to your second question, there are the functions
charactertoint()/charactertointeger() which seem to do what ICHAR()
does.

I'm not familiar with SSMI data, but a quick look over the data format
suggests that 'ubyte' would indeed be the right type. I don't think
you'd need something like ichar in this case, unless you needed your
variable wind to be explicitly 4-byte integer, in which case:

    tmp = fbinread(....)
    wind = toint(tmp)

Hope that helps...
Rick

On Thu, 19 Sep 2013 16:14:27 +0530
  samir pokhrel <samir@tropmet.res.in> wrote:
> Dear NCL users,
>
> I am trying to read binary SSMI data from REMSS site.
>
> The data is in written as a character in lat and lon array and read
>in
> fortran90 as
>
> CHARACTER(1) abuf(1440,720,4)
> READ(3,rec=1) abuf
>
>
> then converted using ICHAR function of fortran as follows.
>
> ssmi_data(:,:)=ICHAR(abuf(:,:))
>
>
> I am reading the first record of this data as
>
> wind = fbinrecread (dpath + infile,0,(/1440,720/),"ubyte")
>
> will "ubyte" be approprate type here?
>
> secondly
>
> Is there any NCL function similar to fortran ichar function.
>
> Any help will be highly appreciated
>
> Sincerely
> Samir
> --
> Samir Pokhrel
> Climate and Global Modelling Division
> Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
> NCL Post, Pashan
> Pune-411008
> INDIA

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