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<div>Hi Dennis,</div>
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<div>I was able to track down some specifics about the file I am trying to plot:</div>
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<li>It was created with fortran on a big-endian system</li><li>There are 2, 12 month records for a 384x320 horizontal grid
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<li>SSS(1:384,1:320,1:12)</li><li>FLXIO(1:384,1:320,1:12)</li></ol>
</li><li>The file is double-precision and direct-access</li></ol>
<div>With this information, I am assuming that I will need to use fbindirread to read in the file, and from there it is just a matter of making sure I grab the right record (FLXIO).</div>
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<div>Is there anything else I need to take into consideration?</div>
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<div>Thank you for all of your help!</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>Taylor M Hughlett, Ph.D.<br>
UTA Earth and Environmental Sciences<br>
500 Yates St.<br>
Geoscience Bldg Rm 117<br>
Arlington, TX 76013-0049</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Dennis Shea <<a href="mailto:shea@ucar.edu">shea@ucar.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 2:47 PM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"Hughlett, Taylor M" <<a href="mailto:taylor.hughlett@uta.edu">taylor.hughlett@uta.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>"<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:ncl-talk@ucar.edu">ncl-talk@ucar.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [ncl-talk] Reading in .ieeer8 file and plotting it with NCL<br>
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<div>Were the data records written by fortran or<br>
See: <a href="http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~salathe/osx_unix/endian.html">
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~salathe/osx_unix/endian.html</a><br>
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<div>The problem with binary is that someone must describe how the data was written. Fortran's default (sequential) binary has **hidden record separators**. The user could also open a binary with "access=direct". This means 'flat' binary files (no record separators.<br>
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Were the binary files created on a big- or little-endian system? See: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness</a><br>
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Likely, fbindirread *or* fbinrecread would work. However, without more knowledge not much more can be said.<br>
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One major reason for the creation of HDF and netCDF to allow the files to be 'blindly' examined via a suite of standard function functions.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Hughlett, Taylor M <span dir="ltr">
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<div>Good afternoon everyone,</div>
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<div>I am attempting to read in a .ieeer8 file using NCL so that it can be plotted. </div>
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<div>I am completely new with binary files, so bear with me.</div>
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<div>I understand that this is a binary file, so visualization and reading it is much more complicated than it would be with netCDF’s. </div>
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<div>After having looked over the instructions on the NCL site, I am still having some confusion with how to get started.</div>
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<div>Specifically, I have these questions:</div>
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<li>Will the fbindirread work to read in a .ieeer8 file (I am assuming the file is fortran as it is a restart file for CESM1’s POP2)?</li><li>How do I know what data is stored on the file prior to reading it in (i.e. Variables)? Or is this even possible?</li></ol>
<div>Any help would be greatly appreciated with this, and I am happy to provide more information if it is required.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Taylor M Hughlett, Ph.D.<br>
UTA Earth and Environmental Sciences<br>
500 Yates St.<br>
Geoscience Bldg Rm 117<br>
Arlington, TX 76013-0049</div>
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