This folder contains the forecats for monthly precipitation. The control files describe the metadata. For example (August Initial Condition), AugIC_nmme_monthly_tmp2m_anom.ctl has the following metadata. ------------------------------------------- dset ^JunIC_nmme_monthly_tmp2m_anom.dat undef -999.0 title tmp2m.bin options little_endian xdef 360 linear 0.000000 1.0 ydef 181 linear -90.0 1.0 tdef 6 linear 15sep1982 1mo zdef 1 linear 1 1 vars 2 tmp2m 0,1,0 0,1,7,0 ** tmp2m degC anom 0,1,0 0,1,7,0 ** tmp2m degC ENDVARS ------------------------------------------- Longitude dimension has 360 points, spaced 1deg from 0 meridian progressing eastward. Latitude Dimension has 181 points, spaced 1deg from 90S to 90N. Time dimension has the 6 monthly forecasts. For August Initial Condition the six forecasts are for the months of SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN(2019) FEB(2019) The name of the variable is "anom". The units are degC. ------------------------------------------- A sample grads script (tmp2m.gs) is provided