[GRASS-user] need ideas for an interesting query of worldclim data - longitudinal band

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Kirk Wythers <kirk.wythers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for suggestions on a query of worldclim data
> (http://worldclim.org/).
>
> I have used something similar to below for previous data extraction where I
> am looking for data associated with a particular site, or list of sites,
> where a single lon lat coordinate will return a single value. However, in
> this case, I need to pull an entire longitudinal band for a particular
> latitude.
>
> For example instead of grabbing data from a single coordinates with
> "east_north = -92.50, 46.51", I want to grab all the data in the
> longitudinal band at latitude 46.51.
>
> If it were possible something like "east_north = *, 46.51"

Isn't this a job for r.profile or r.transect?

Markus