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<h1 align=center>GRDPASTE</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#GRID FILE FORMATS">GRID FILE FORMATS</a><br>
<a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<a name="NAME"></a>
<h2>NAME</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">grdpaste
− Paste together two <i>.grd</i> files along a common
edge.</p>
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>grdpaste</b>
<i>file_a.grd file_b.grd</i>
<b>−G</b><i>outfile.grd</i> [ <b>−V</b> ]</p>
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
<h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>grdpaste</b>
will combine <i>file_a.grd</i> and <i>file_b.grd</i> into
<i>outfile.grd</i> by pasting them together along their
common edge. Files <i>file_a.grd</i> and <i>file_b.grd</i>
must have the same dx, dy and have one edge in common. If in
doubt, check with <b><A HREF="grdinfo.html">grdinfo</A></b> and use <b><A HREF="grdcut.html">grdcut</A></b>
and/or <b><A HREF="grdsample.html">grdsample</A></b> if necessary to prepare the edge
joint. <i><br>
file_a.grd</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">One of two files to be pasted
together.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><i>file_b.grd</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">The other of two files to be
pasted together.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%;"><b>−G</b><i>outfile.grd</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:22%;">The name for the combined
output.</p>
<a name="OPTIONS"></a>
<h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top"><b>−V</b></p> </td>
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<p style="margin-top: 1em" valign="top">Selects verbose
mode, which will send progress reports to stderr [Default
runs "silently"].</p></td>
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<a name="GRID FILE FORMATS"></a>
<h2>GRID FILE FORMATS</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">By default
<b><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></b> writes out grid as single precision floats in a
COARDS-complaint netCDF file format. However, <b><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></b> 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 2- or 4-byte integers. To specify the precision,
scale and offset, the user should add the suffix
<b>=</b><i>id</i>[<b>/</b><i>scale</i><b>/</b><i>offset</i>[<b>/</b><i>nan</i>]],
where <i>id</i> is a two-letter identifier of the grid type
and precision, and <i>scale</i> and <i>offset</i> are
optional scale factor and offset to be applied to all grid
values, and <i>nan</i> 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 <b><A HREF="grdreformat.html">grdreformat</A></b>(1)
and Section 4.17 of the GMT Technical Reference and Cookbook
for more information.</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">When reading a
netCDF file that contains multiple grids, <b><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></b> will
read, by default, the first 2-dimensional grid that can find
in that file. To coax <b><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></b> into reading another
multi-dimensional variable in the grid file, append
<b>?</b><i>varname</i> to the file name, where
<i>varname</i> is the name of the variable. Note that you
may need to escape the special meaning of <b>?</b> 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 <b>?</b><i>varname</i> suffix can also be used
for output grids to specify a variable name different from
the default: "z". See <b><A HREF="grdreformat.html">grdreformat</A></b>(1) and
Section 4.18 of the GMT Technical Reference and Cookbook for
more information, particularly on how to read splices of 3-,
4-, or 5-dimensional grids.</p>
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<h2>EXAMPLES</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em">Suppose
file_a.grd is 150E - 180E and 0 - 30N, and file_b.grd is
150E - 180E, -30S - 0, then you can make outfile.grd which
will be 150 - 180 and -30S - 30N by:</p>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><b>grdpaste</b>
file_a.grd file_b.grd <b>−G</b>outfile.grd
<b>−V</b></p>
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
<h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
<p style="margin-left:11%; margin-top: 1em"><i><A HREF="GMT.html">GMT</A></i>(1),
<i><A HREF="grdcut.html">grdcut</A></i>(1), <i><A HREF="grdinfo.html">grdinfo</A></i>(1), <i><A HREF="grdsample.html">grdsample</A></i>(1)</p>
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