Newbie questions!
Bob
gradshelp at ROGERS.COM
Mon Nov 14 15:53:04 EST 2005
Thanks guys,
I`m going to try again. Wish me luck!!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erick Rivera Fernandez" <errivera at CARIARI.UCR.AC.CR>
To: <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie questions!
> Hi Bob, I think you have to put your files in the following directory:
> C:\Program Files\PCGrADS\win32e or
> "Path_where_PCGrADS_is_installed"\win32e
> Regards,
>
>
> Erick Rivera
> Centro de Investigaciones Geofisicas
> Universidad de Costa Rica
> San Pedro de Montes de Oca, Costa Rica
> Tel: (506) 207-5320
> Fax: (506) 234-2703
> E-mail: errivera at cariari.ucr.ac.cr
> errivera at cigefi.ucr.ac.cr
>
>
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Bob wrote:
>
> > Still no luck!! Whatever I do, I still get those can`t open file errors.
> >
> > Thanks for your help though. I`m running the win32e version.
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jean Pierre Arabonis
> > To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: Newbie questions!
> >
> >
> > Hi Bob
> > Should not matter where you put them, check that the model.ctl file
> has the fist line looking like so:
> > dset ^model.grb
> > and not pathed somewhere else, check the permissions on teh files you
> need to at least be able to read them.
> > Note that if you are running grads from another directory than the one
> where the files reside you bust give the
> absolute path to the control file, eg
> >
> > ga> open /your full path/model.ctl
> >
> > Your directory holding the files should look somthing like so:
> >
> > arabonis at baltic:/mnt/pacific/data/gradstut/atmosdata> ls -lat
> > total 593
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 arabonis osis 593060 Jan 14 2003 model.grb
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 arabonis osis 4633 Jan 14 2003 model.gmp
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 arabonis osis 144 Jan 14 2003 ./
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 arabonis osis 651 Jan 14 2003 model.ctl
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 arabonis osis 104 Jan 14 2003 ../
> >
> > and the ctl file like so:
> >
> > arabonis at baltic:/mnt/pacific/data/gradstut/atmosdata> cat model.ctl
> > dset ^model.grb
> > title "Sample Model Data for GrADS Tutorial"
> > undef 1e+20
> > dtype grib
> > index ^model.gmp
> > xdef 72 linear 0.000000 5.000000
> > ydef 46 linear -90.000000 4.000000
> > zdef 7 levels
> > 1000 850 700 500 300 200 100
> > tdef 5 linear 0Z2jan1987 1dy
> > vars 8
> > ps 0 1, 1, 0, 0 Surface pressure [hPa]
> > u 7 33,100 Eastward wind [m/s]
> > v 7 34,100 Northward wind [m/s]
> > z 7 7,100 Geopotential height [m]
> > t 7 11,100 Air Temperature [K]
> > q 7 51,100 Specific humidity [kg/kg]
> > ts 0 11,105, 2 Surface (2m) air temperature [K]
> > p 0 59, 1, 0, 0 Total precipitation rate [kg/(m^2*s)]
> > endvars
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > JP
> >
> >
> >
> > Bob wrote:
> >
> > Thankyou,
> >
> > I have the datafiles all in the same directory. I have placed them in
> the main Grads folder, and tried in just about
> every other folder too but I still get the error.
> >
> > I can`t think of anything else to try!! I`ve been waiting to play
> around with Grads for ages, but find this
> frustrating that I can`t even get off the starting block :D
> >
> > Is there a specific place where the datafiles (ctl, grib) should go?
> >
> >
> > Ron.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Jean Pierre Arabonis
> > To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> > Sent: Monday, November 14, 2005 12:25 PM
> > Subject: Re: Newbie questions!
> >
> >
> > Hi Bob
> > Welcome to grads, firstly I feel that grads is better suited to
> the linux environment - besides being basically
> anti-windows, you'll find a lot of the users of grads are working in a
> unix/linux environment and user support is probably
> better in that area, further for automation of grads scripts, linux is
> very flexible (which seems to be your ultimate
> goal).
> > It seems though there have been some library issues with recent
> versions of grads on certain flavours of linux,
> red hat does not seem to be one of them but a trawl of the archives
> should resolve any compatibility issues.
> > With regard to load, thats going to depend on your input files
> and what you do with them, however grads is very
> stable and will generally complete the task without falling over. I have
> grads running on an old 450 MHz P2 running
> scripts and it works just fine.
> > With regard to your problem with the model file it seems to me
> to be a path problem, the data file and ctl file
> must be in the same directory.
> > Good Luck
> > Jean Pierre
> >
> >
> > Bob wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I`ve never used Grads before, so it`s a completely new ball game
> for me!! The most ambitious I`ve been is to use
> a desktop utility likes DAWS!
> >
> > I have several questions to ask, where the answers could not be
> found on the Cola homepage.
> >
> > I would like to install Grads on my server, mainly so I can
> ingest and display grib data/model charts on my
> website. What kind of server loads would I be looking at here? I need to
> know, whether my server can cope with it it!! Can
> someone shed some light on using Grads on a redhat linux based server?
> >
> > Secondly, I haven`t looked through any of the documentation as
> yet. I thought it might be a good idea to install
> the windows version locally on my W2K PC first, so I can get an idea of
> how Grads works.
> >
> > I believe I have it installed correctly, but I can`t even get off
> the starting block!! I tried to open the demo
> model.ctl file that comes with the online tutorial - all I get are errors
> `Scanning description file: model
> > Open Error: Can't open description file`
> >
> > Do I need to place the ctl, grib and gmp in a certain folder? All
> the tutorial says is download them and place
> them locally. Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ron.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jean Pierre Arabonis
> > arabonis at egs.uct.ac.za
> > Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
> > This email is 100% Microsoft Free
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jean Pierre Arabonis
> > arabonis at egs.uct.ac.za
> > Tel 021 780 1021 cell 084 401 1365
> > This email is 100% Microsoft Free
> >
>
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