Hi there Sorry to send this letter again since I forgot to attach my data file. I have an example insitu profile data attached. It is in ascii format and only contains three fields, "Longitude","Depth" and "Percent PAR". I'm following the instructions in Ferret user's guide (http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/Ferret/Documentation/Users_Guide/current/fer_html.htm ) to config Ferret to process it. I'm currently reading Chapter 8, "WORKING WITH SPECIAL DATA SETS". But I have problem understanding the example jnl file in Section 3.2 "Getting profile data into ferret". Could someone give me any hint about building an example jnl file to process my attached insitu data ? Another question is that has anybody dealt with insitu data using SQL database? I got suggestions from Jonathan to use SQL database for my insitu data, however I don't know how to config Ferret to handle SQL database after spending some time learning ferret. My understanding is that ferret only handles gridded data, no matter ascii format or netcdf format. Even Chapter 8 of ferret user guide says that ferret is able to handle profile data, we still need to either choose a Z axis and use linear interpolation or choose a Z axis which is superset of the Z axis points from all of the grids, eventually we still use gridded format. Is my understanding correct? Many thanks in advance. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. Ding Chi __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
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3D PAR File.csv
Description: 3D PAR File.csv