Re: GMT 4: combining GRD files into one FILE with several LAYERS

Paul Wessel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
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Hi JJ_

GMT can read from layer "a" but does not write 3-D grids.  Given that I would not try to do a 256-layer file.

-p

On Feb 10, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Becker, Joseph J. <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have 256 global grids at 15 second resolution; e.g. ~16 GB grd files * 256 grids =  4 TB of data.
> 
> I want to automate some processing that uses tiny patches (16x16 nodes) of each and every one of these 256 files. And I step that over the globe.
> 
> Off hand it seems like it might make sense (code re-use and simplicity) to combine all that data into a single grid with 256 layers.
> 
> Is this practical? 
> 
> Anyone have some examples of doing things like this:
> 
> 	grdmath on layer "a" writing result to layer "b"
> 
> 	grdmask xy files > "layer"
> 
> and so on.
> 
> thanks!
> 
> 
> -jj
> 
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