<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7188" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7220">I have to plot 8km_30minutes resolution CMORPH rainfall.&nbsp;</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7188" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7225">The data is binary format. and has 24 files of each hour.&nbsp;</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7188" dir="ltr" class=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7273" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7273" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 aditya aditya 48955512 Dec &nbsp;1 19:33 CMORPH_8KM-30MIN_2015113021<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7273" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 aditya aditya 48955512 Dec &nbsp;1 19:33 CMORPH_8KM-30MIN_2015113022</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7273" class="">-rw-r--r-- 1 aditya aditya 48955512 Dec &nbsp;1 19:33 CMORPH_8KM-30MIN_2015113023</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7325" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7327" class=""></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7188" dir="ltr">As per the documentation of this data from (ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/global_CMORPH/CMORPH_8km-30-minute.ctl)</div><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class="">DSET /your-data-set-path/advt-8km-intrp-prim-sat-spat-2lag-2.5+5dovlp8kmIR-%y4%m2%d2%h2
OPTIONS yrev big_endian template
UNDEF  255
TITLE  correlation estimates
XDEF 4948 LINEAR   0.036378335 0.072756669
YDEF 1649 LINEAR -59.963614    0.072771377
ZDEF   01 LEVELS 1
TDEF 99999  LINEAR   00z21dec2002 30mn
VARS 3
cmorph   1  -1,40,1,-1 xxxxxx yyyyy  (mult. by 0.2 to get mm/hr units)
time     1  -1,40,1,-1 xxxxxx yyyyy
satid    1  -1,40,1,-1 xxxxxx yyyyy
ENDVARS 
</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class="">there are 3 records, 1st record being the desired parameter. (ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/global_CMORPH/README.cmorph.8km_30minute). </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class="">I have to plot each hourly file and then get 24 hrs rainfall for a day. </pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class="">;;;;;;;Code;</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class=""> print(isbigendian)

; ----Defining for Once -----

  wks         = gsn_open_wks("ps","CMO-v1")
                gsn_define_colormap(wks,"prcp_2")

  nlat        =  1649
  nlon        =  4948
;--------------------------------------------------

 lat         = -59.963614 + ispan(0,nlat-1,1)*0.072771377
;                 print(lat)
 lon         = 0.036378335 + ispan(0,nlon-1,1)*0.072756669
;                 print(lon)

               setfileoption("bin","ReadByteOrder","BigEndian")

; cmorrf   =    fbinrecread("test.bin",0,(/nlat,nlon/),"float")  ; print 0th record.&nbsp;</pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class=""><br></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class=""><pre id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7373" class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;">cmorrf   =    fbinrecread("test.bin",0,-1,"float")  ; print 0th record.</pre>
                print("Sizeof rf  ="+dimsizes(cmorrf))
;               print(cmorrf)
                asciiwrite("rf.txt",cmorrf)

</pre><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">When I run this,&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class=""><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">(0)<span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7658">        </span>False</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">warning:fbinrecread: size specified is greater than record size, filling with missing values</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">(0)<span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7662">        </span>Sizeof rf &nbsp;=1649</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">(1)<span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7665">        </span>Sizeof rf &nbsp;=4948</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">when I use -1 in line defining cmorphh, I get this output.&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">aditya@agniilap:~/geeta/ncl/CMORPH$ &nbsp;See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">(0)<span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7769">        </span>False</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">(0)<span class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7772">        </span>Sizeof rf &nbsp;=0</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7774" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7776" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class=""><br id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7669" class=""></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">no rainfall is written to the file.&nbsp;<br></div></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">Also the 1st and 2nd &nbsp;records are not being shown.&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class=""><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1450592720313_7375" class="">Pls suggest.&nbsp;</div></div></body></html>