R help - Feb 2007 - problem in reading TOMS observed ASCII data file

Hello R Users,

I have two data sets i) TOMS aerosol optical depth(AOD) and ii) TOMS
ozone(O3).

AOD data is on 1x1 grid and O3 data is on 5x5 grid.

First I want to read AOD and O3 as it is and then I want to regrid AOD on
5x5 grid as O3.

Reading is first problem.

FIRST PROBLEM READING AOD:

AOD data is in following format:

#########
Latitute: 89.5
167 0 0 0 0 0 182 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 200 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 0 0 0 0 0 156  0 0 0 0 0 0
............
...........

Latitude: 88.5
.........
........

Lat.........
.........
.......
......
Latitude: -88.5
 180 0 0 0 0 0 182 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 500 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 655 0 0 0 0 0 156  0 0 0 0 0 0
......
.....
######

After each latitude header there is 360 AOD values (1x1 grid). This is
monthly mean data. I have many years of data file.

So the first problem is how to read the data by omiting latitude header,
also data is written along row not along column ?



 SECOND PROBLEM READING O3:

O3 data is in following format:

ozone(72,12,324)

72: Longitude -177.5,-172.5,...,177.5'

12: Latitude -27.5,-22.5,...,27.5'

324: Month Jan79,Feb79,....,Dec05'

###################

   Month index:    0
  20.8  22.1  20.0  19.0  16.3  20.0  24.4  23.5  27.9  23.7   0.0  32.4
  21.6  23.8  20.4  17.9  16.0  22.2  25.3  25.1  31.1  27.4   0.0  30.3
  23.2  23.9  20.7  17.3  16.5  23.1  25.9  25.4  30.4  29.3   0.0  29.9
  26.1  24.7  21.3  15.9  16.8  22.8  25.3  25.8  29.8  30.1   0.0  31.6

--------------------------

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  Month index:  323
   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0

---------------------------------

-------------------------

#################

12 columns and 72 rows (latitudexlongitude)





THIRD PROBLEM regriding AOD:
How to regrid 1x1 AOD data on 5x5 grid  as O3.


Many thanks for yours help.

Regards,
Yogesh

-- 
Dr. Yogesh K. Tiwari,
Scientist,
Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology,
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Pune-411008
INDIA

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