Thanks RUSS, I appreciate the help. By the way we are using the NetCDF data to place the Precipitation data for stage 3 on the Gopher server. The server is gopherpc.abrfc.noaa.gov under pub/StageIII/N..... If you have timeYou could may be look at the format and send comments to me personally. I would appreciate any comments. Nalneesh Gaur, River Forecast Center, TULSA