[UW-GIS-L] confusing file

[Cathy Reidy Liermann]

Thanks, Harvey.  Here's the file.  I've looked high and low and can find no
reference to .clim files anywhere, neither on UnivDel's site nor anywhere
else on the net.  I've searched the ESRI forums, and nothing.  I've played
around with changing the file extension, and nothing.  

Any help you can provide would be great!  I'm sure it's going to be a
ridiculously obvious answer that will embarrass me, but oh well.  :)


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Cathy Reidy Liermann
Postdoctoral Researcher
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School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
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[mailto:uw-gis-l-bounces at mailman1.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Harvey
Greenberg
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:26 PM
To: UW - GIS Discussion & Support
Subject: Re: [UW-GIS-L] confusing file

Z is an extra extension. Typically a file named "rainfall.clim" would 
compress to "rainfall.clim.Z"

A series of files or directories ,.e.g. "rainfalldir" would be converted 
to a single file named "rainfalldir.tar" whcih could be compressed to 
"rainfalldir.tar.Z". But there is no evidence of tar here.

It looks like you successfully uncompressed a .clim file. The remaining 
question is: What the hell is a .clim file? Check their web site or 
google to find out. If it needs to be reformatted for arc/info to see 
it, I can take a crack at it next week.

harvey

Cathy Reidy Liermann wrote:

>

> Hi there,

>

> I've downloaded some gridded climate data from Univ. of Delaware, and 

> can not for the life of me figure out how to read the file.

>

> The documentation says "Important note: all files available here for 

> downloading have been "compressed" under Unix in order to save space. 

> A single compressed file has ".Z" extension. You may need to respecify 

> the ".Z" extension when you save a compressed file. Some of our 

> archives also have multiple files (such as time series) that are 

> "tar"ed under Unix and have a ".tar" extension. As a result, files 

> must be "untared" and/or "uncompressed" to return them to their 

> original ASCII format, before they may be used."

>

> I've extracted from the .Z and the single file's extension now is 

> .clim. When I open it in Word Pad, it doesn't have the ascii header 

> information. Any suggestions?

>

> Thanks,

>

> Cathy

>

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

>

> Cathy Reidy Liermann

>

> Postdoctoral Researcher

>

> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

>

> University of Washington

>

> School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

>

> Campus Box 355020

>

> Seattle, WA 98195

>

> Phone: (+01) 206-685-9582

>

> Fax: (+01) 206-685-6939

>

> email: cathyrl at u.washington.edu <mailto:cathyrl at u.washington.edu>

>

> FOR DELIVERIES AND EXPRESS MAIL:

>

> UW-Fishery Sciences Building

>

> 1122 NE Boat Ste.

>

> Seattle, WA 98105

>

> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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	Harvey Greenberg
	University of Washington
	Department of Earth and Space Sciences
	Box 351310
	Seattle WA 98195-1310

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