[ferret_users] EASE-Grid Data in Ferret

[John Krasting <krasting@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Ferret Users:

I was wondering if you could help show me how to import data like this
into Ferret.  It is on an 25-km EASE-Grid.

The first columns give the record number, lat, lon, etc.,  and the
remaining columns are precipitation for each month.  Ultimately I
would like to regrid these data to a uniform 1 degree lat-lon grid.

I have a total of 50 files like this that I would need to import. It
would also be nice to aggregate all 600 months onto the same time axis
in the same file.

Can this be done???

Thanks,
John

PS - The attached file has more than 39,000 records.   I only pasted the 
first 20 lines as an example.

1990  Precipitation interpolated from Groisman archive
"CellID" "Lat" "Long" "01" "02" "03" "04" "05" "06" "07" "08" "09" "10" "11" "12"
     1   56.5398 -158.3440    46.7    37.9    33.4    14.5    31.5    30.8    32.9   106.1    40.6   102.0    77.1    52.0
     2   56.6259 -158.7088    47.5    37.8    33.6    14.5    31.7    30.7    33.2   106.5    40.9   102.0    77.6    52.3
     3   56.7107 -159.0755    48.3    37.7    33.7    14.5    31.9    30.5    33.6   107.0    41.3   102.1    78.2    52.6
     4   56.6703 -157.8336    44.8    38.0    33.1    14.4    31.0    31.1    32.0   104.9    39.9   101.9    75.8    51.2
     5   56.7584 -158.1986    45.4    38.0    33.2    14.4    31.1    31.0    32.3   105.2    40.1   102.0    76.2    51.4
     6   56.8451 -158.5654    46.1    37.9    33.3    14.4    31.3    30.9    32.6   105.6    40.4   102.0    76.6    51.7
     7   56.8881 -157.6844    43.7    38.1    32.9    14.3    30.7    31.2    31.5   104.2    39.5   101.9    75.1    50.7
     8   56.9767 -158.0513    44.2    38.1    33.0    14.3    30.8    31.1    31.7   104.5    39.7   101.9    75.4    50.9
     9   57.0638 -158.4201    44.8    38.1    33.1    14.4    31.0    31.1    32.0   104.9    39.9   102.0    75.8    51.1
    10   56.9230 -156.8014    41.8    38.1    32.5    14.2    30.2    31.5    30.7   103.0    38.7   101.9    73.9    49.9
    11   57.0149 -157.1664    42.2    38.1    32.6    14.2    30.3    31.4    30.9   103.3    38.9   101.9    74.1    50.1
    12   57.1054 -157.5332    42.7    38.1    32.7    14.2    30.4    31.4    31.1   103.5    39.1   101.9    74.4    50.3
    13   57.1946 -157.9021    43.1    38.1    32.8    14.3    30.5    31.3    31.3   103.8    39.2   101.9    74.7    50.5
    14   57.2822 -158.2729    43.7    38.1    32.9    14.3    30.7    31.2    31.5   104.1    39.4   101.9    75.0    50.7
    15   57.1389 -156.6444    41.0    38.1    32.4    14.2    30.0    31.6    30.4   102.5    38.4   101.8    73.3    49.6
    16   57.2314 -157.0113    41.3    38.1    32.5    14.2    30.1    31.6    30.5   102.7    38.5   101.8    73.5    49.7
    17   57.3225 -157.3801    41.7    38.2    32.5    14.2    30.2    31.5    30.7   103.0    38.7   101.9    73.8    49.9
    18   57.4121 -157.7510    42.1    38.2    32.6    14.2    30.3    31.4    30.8   103.2    38.9   101.9    74.0    50.0