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>From: Arlene Laing <address@hidden> >Organization: USF >Keywords: 200206101945.g5AJjNJ02677 McIDAS GRDDISP Hi Arlene, >May I disturb you for a moment, please? Absolutely no disturbance at all! >I have encountered some problems >with a GRDDISP command that I am running on some archived data. See the >McIDAS session log below. Your assistance with solving the problem will >be greatly appreciated. > > >TFILE did OPEN on window 0 >REDIRECT ADD GRID* "/home/nnarvek/mcidas/data >REDIRECT: Done >DSINFO ALL TESTDATA > > Dataset Names of Type: IMAGE in Group: TESTDATA > >Name NumPos Content >------------ ------ -------------------------------------- >TEST 99999 > > No Datasets found of Type: POINT in Group: TESTDATA > No Datasets found of Type: VPROF in Group: TESTDATA > > Dataset Names of Type: GRID in Group: TESTDATA > >Name NumPos Content >------------ ------ -------------------------------------- >GRIDS 9999 TEST GRID FILES > > No Datasets found of Type: TEXT in Group: TESTDATA > No Datasets found of Type: NAV in Group: TESTDATA >DSINFO -- done >SF 1 >PTCON NEWDATA/06juneman.1 SEL='LEV 500; TIME 12' PARAM=Z[M] MAP=SEUS >OUT=PLOT TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 PINT= 3 3 >Number of data points input to objective analysis: 46 >PTCON: Done OK, I think I see the problem here. In order to both save the objective analyis to a GRID file and produce the contour plot, you need to specify the OUT=SPLOT TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 keyword sequence. The OUT=PLOT TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 only plots the grid values; it does not do the save, so nothing will get written to TESTDATA/GRIDS.1. >SF 2 >PTCON NEWDATA/10juneman.1 SEL='LEV 500; TIME 12' PARAM=Z[M] MAP=SEUS >OUT=PLOT TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 PINT= 3 3 >Number of data points input to objective analysis: 42 >PTCON: Done >SF 3 >PTCON NEWDATA/16juneman.1 SEL='LEV 500; TIME 12' PARAM=Z[M] MAP=SEUS >OUT=PLOT TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 PINT= 3 3 >Number of data points input to objective analysis: 47 >PTCON: Done >SF 4 >GRDDISP TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 MATH='(G1+G2+G3)/3' G1='GRID 1' G2='GRID 2' >G3='GRID 3' MAP=SEUS OUT=PLO PINT=3 3 >GRDDISP: No grid found matching search conditions >GRDDISP - done GRDDISP didn't find any grids since none were written to TESTDATA/GRIDS.1. >GRDLIST TESTDATA/GRIDS.1 NUM=ALL >GRDLIST: No grid found matching search conditions >GRDLIST - done >GRDLIST TESTDATA/GRIDS >GRDLIST: No grid found matching search conditions >GRDLIST - done >TFILE CLOSE "june_10_01 > >Thanks in advance. No worries. Please let me know if this solves your problem. Tom >From address@hidden Wed Jun 12 19:41:51 2002 >Subject: Re: 20020610: McIDAS Grid Math Problem Tom, Thanks for your help with the GRIDS creation problem. I may see you next week when I am in Boulder for a COMET lecture. Arlene