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# grdedit

grdedit - Modify header or content of a grid

## Synopsis

grdedit grid [ -A ] [ -Dxname/yname/zname/scale/offset/invalid/title/remark ] [ -E ] [ -Ntable ] [ -R[unit]xmin/xmax/ymin/ymax[r] ] [ -S ] [ -T ] [ -V[level] ] [ -bi[ncols][type][w][+L|+B] ] [ -f[i|o]colinfo ] [ -icols[l][sscale][ooffset][,...] ] [ -:[i|o] ]

Note: No space is allowed between the option flag and the associated arguments.

## Description

grdedit reads the header information in a binary 2-D grid file and replaces the information with values provided on the command line [if any]. As an option, global, geographical grids (with 360 degrees longitude range) can be rotated in the east-west direction, and individual nodal values can be replaced from a table of x, y, z values. grdedit only operates on files containing a grdheader. Note: If it is important to retain the original data you should work on a copy of that file.

## Required Arguments

grid
  Name of the 2-D grid file to modify. (See GRID FILE FORMATS below).

## Optional Arguments

-A
  If necessary, adjust the file’s x_inc, y_inc to be compatible with its domain (or a new domain set with -R). Older grid files (i.e., created prior to GMT 3.1) often had excessive slop in x_inc, y_inc and an adjustment is necessary. Newer files are created correctly.
-Dxname/yname/zname/scale/offset/invalid/title/remark
  Give values for xname, yname, zname, scale, offset, invalid, title, and remark. To leave some of these values untouched, leave field blank. Empty fields in the end may be skipped. Alternatively, to allow “/” to be part of one of the values, use any non-alphanumeric character (and not the equal sign) as separator by both starting and ending with it. For example: -D:xname:yname:zname:scale:offset:invalid:title:remark:
-E
  Transpose the grid and exchange the x and y information. Incompatible with the other options.
-Ntable
  Read the ASCII (or binary; see -bi) file table and replace the corresponding nodal values in the grid with these x,y,z values.

-R[unit]xmin/xmax/ymin/ymax[r] (more ...)
  Specify the region of interest. The new w/e/s/n values will replace those in the grid, and the x_inc, y_inc values are adjusted, if necessary.
-S
  For global, geographical grids only. Grid values will be shifted longitudinally according to the new borders given in -R.
-T
  Make necessary changes in the header to convert a gridline-registered grid to a pixel-registered grid, or vice-versa. Basically, gridline-registered grids will have their domain extended by half the x- and y-increments whereas pixel-registered grids will have their domain shrunk by the same amount.

-V[level] (more ...)
  Select verbosity level [c].

-bi[ncols][type] (more ...)
  Select binary input. [Default is 3 input columns].

-f[i|o]colinfo (more ...)
  Specify data types of input and/or output columns.

-h[i|o][n][+c][+d][+rremark][+rtitle] (more ...)
  Skip or produce header record(s).

-icols[l][sscale][ooffset][,...] (more ...)
  Select input columns.

-^
  Print a short message about the syntax of the command, then exits (NOTE: on Windows use just -).
+
  Print an extensive usage (help) message, including the explanation of any module-specific option (but not the GMT common options), then exits.
-?
  Print a complete usage (help) message, including the explanation of options, then exits.
--version
  Print GMT version and exit.
--show-datadir
  Print full path to GMT share directory and exit.

## Grid File Formats

By default GMT writes out grid as single precision floats in a COARDS-complaint netCDF file format. However, GMT is able to produce grid files in many other commonly used grid file formats and also facilitates so called “packing” of grids, writing out floating point data as 1- or 2-byte integers. To specify the precision, scale and offset, the user should add the suffix =id[/scale/offset[/nan]], where id is a two-letter identifier of the grid type and precision, and scale and offset are optional scale factor and offset to be applied to all grid values, and nan is the value used to indicate missing data. When reading grids, the format is generally automatically recognized. If not, the same suffix can be added to input grid file names. See grdreformat and Section Grid file format specifications of the GMT Technical Reference and Cookbook for more information.

When reading a netCDF file that contains multiple grids, GMT will read, by default, the first 2-dimensional grid that can find in that file. To coax GMT into reading another multi-dimensional variable in the grid file, append ?varname to the file name, where varname is the name of the variable. Note that you may need to escape the special meaning of ? in your shell program by putting a backslash in front of it, or by placing the filename and suffix between quotes or double quotes. The ?varname suffix can also be used for output grids to specify a variable name different from the default: “z”. See grdreformat and Section Grid file format specifications of the GMT Technical Reference and Cookbook for more information, particularly on how to read splices of 3-, 4-, or 5-dimensional grids.

## Geographical And Time Coordinates

When the output grid type is netCDF, the coordinates will be labeled “longitude”, “latitude”, or “time” based on the attributes of the input data or grid (if any) or on the -f or -R options. For example, both -f0x -f1t and -R90w/90e/0t/3t will result in a longitude/time grid. When the x, y, or z coordinate is time, it will be stored in the grid as relative time since epoch as specified by TIME_UNIT and TIME_EPOCH in the gmt.conf file or on the command line. In addition, the unit attribute of the time variable will indicate both this unit and epoch.

## Examples

Let us assume the file data.nc covers the area 300/310/10/30. We want to change the boundaries from geodetic longitudes to geographic and put a new title in the header. We accomplish this by

>     gmt grdedit data.nc -R-60/-50/10/30 -D/////"Gravity Anomalies"

The grid world.nc has the limits 0/360/-72/72. To shift the data so that the limits would be -180/180/-72/72, use

>     gmt grdedit world.nc -R-180/180/-72/72 -S

The file junk.nc was created prior to GMT 3.1 with incompatible -R and -I arguments. To reset the x- and y-increments we run

>     gmt grdedit junk.nc -A

The file junk.nc was created prior to GMT 4.1.3 and does not contain the required information to indicate that the grid is geographic. To add this information, run

>     gmt grdedit junk.nc -fg

## See Also

gmt, grd2xyz, grdinfo xyz2grd

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