Control file for multiple files

[Dan Leins]

List,

I'm re-visiting this topic, as it's come up again, and I never really ended
up doing what I wanted to last time anyway.  Like below, I've got a series
of files which will all be named in a similar convention, only varying by
model valid forecast time.  I've been successful in getting gribmap to work
with the "%f2" option, however now that it's working, how do I open a
specific file?  Let's say I wanted to open nam.t00z.grbgrd24.tm00, the 24
hour prog?  I thought that maybe I could only have one nam.t00z file in the
working directory, and that it would automatically open the one it found,
but it didn't.  Is there a way I pass an argument to grads (24), to tell it
which one to open?  If so, what's the syntax for that?

Thanks,
Dan Leins

On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:42:12 -0600, Greg West <gwest at MET.UTAH.EDU> wrote:

>Dan,
>   To use the "%f2" you need to add "options template" below the "dtype"
>line in your control file. Then you'll have to recreate your index file
>using gribmap.
>
>Greg
>
>Daniel Leins wrote:
>> List,
>>
>> I would like to know if it's possible to come up with a control file
>> that could be used for several different grib files.  I've created a
>> control file for the mesoeta model run, and instead of using grib2ctl,
>> and gribmap every time I process a grib file, I would like to stick with
>> one ctl file, as well as 1 idx file.  Can this be done, and if so, what
>> is the context of the top of the control file?
>>
>> Looking around online, I came across an example ctl file valid for the
>> GFS run.  The top of the file looks like...
>>
>> dset ^gfs.t00z.pgrbf%f2
>> index ^gfs_00z.idx
>> undef 9.999E+20
>>
>> I modified my file to look like
>>
>> dset ^nam.t00z.grbgrd%f2.tm00
>> index ^nam.idx
>> undef 9.999E+20
>>
>> changing the forecast valid time from the number to "%f2", however when
>> I try and open my control file, I am presented with an error that it
>> can't find "
>>
>> nam.t00z.grbgrd%f2.tm00"   I get the same error when I try and run
>> gribmap, thinking that the idx file was messed up.
>>
>> All my files will be named with the same convention,
>> nam.t00z.grbgrd##.tm00.  What can I do to make this concept of a
>> single control file work?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dan Leins
>
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