gfs grib data

[Kwan-yin Kong]

Have you used gradsdod to read GFS grib files remotely?

http://grads.iges.org/grads/gds/index.html

You can open current GFS grib files remotely, for example,

sdfopen
http://nomad2.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs/gfs20060829/gfs_18z

Kwan-yin Kong
City College of New York

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:57:43 -0500
  Brian Jewett <jewett at ATMOS.UIUC.EDU> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I grab gfs data from the same location but from
>ftp.ncep.noaa.gov, not ftpprd
>(perhaps a mirror/forward to the same place?)
>
>I use the gfs.t12z.pgrbf?? files for WRF runs, and the
>wrf ingest accepts them
>as grib files without complaint.  Not sure why grads is
>having difficulty.
>
>Best,
>
>   Brian Jewett
>   University of Illinois
>
>On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:00:28 -0700
>  Elizabeth Austin <ecarter at WEATHEREXTREME.COM> wrote:
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I am trying to plot current gfs grib data with grads. I
>>am pulling from
>>the site:
>>ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod
>>
>>I have tried the gfs.t12z.pgrb2fxx files
>>also the
>>gfs.t12z.pgrbfxx files
>>
>>when I run the grib2ctl command I get the message that
>>the files are not
>>grib format...any suggestions?
>>Thanks,
>>Elizabeth Austin
>>
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>Department of Atmospheric Sciences
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