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Ms. Semeena, >Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:42:15 +0530 (IST) >From: "Ms. Semeena" <address@hidden> >Organization: . >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 19990712: GrADS to netCDF convertion: temporal unit attribute >Keywords: 199907120612.AAA06983 In the above message, you wrote: > I tried with the same attribute "12 hours since 1991-01-01" and > created the ncdump file. In that file the units attributes show the > correct values as "12 hours since 1991-01-01" Then, as far as the netCDF library and the UDUNITS unit-conversion library are concerned, the dataset is OK. > But when opening this > netCDF file either in grADS or in ferret it plots with 1 hour interval, > which is plotting for only for January 1991 and half of February 1991. This indicates a problem with the plotting software (GrADS and FERRET). > I serched in the web site given in your reply > (http://www.unidata.ucar.edu). But there also it is given that we can put > as milliseconds since......... . So I tried with halfdays since..... > whioch may be wrong. Still I tried with that also, but then it plots with > 1 day interval. > So how can I contact the creator of the plotting program? Please > help me in this regard Support for GrADS can be found at the following: <http://grads.iges.org/grads/> Support for FERRET can be found at the following: <http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/> Good luck. -------- Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>