ctl templates

[Davide Sacchetti]

for what I remember you should have several idx files only if you had
several ctl: I mean the number of idx should be the same of ctl. If your
template system is correct the overlap should work. This may cause some
problem only with cumulated fields, as precipitation but this could be
another topic ...
Davide

On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 13:21 -0300, Jose Augusto P.Veiga wrote:
> I fixed index filename, eg.: fnl_0403.idx instead of
> fnl_0403%d2_%h2_00.idx as suggested and I had no problem during openning
> the fnl_0403.ctl. However as I have sevaral file .idx
> (fnl_040321_00_00.idx, fnl_040321_06_00.idx, and so on) the time does not
> overlap when I set (set t 1 last).
> what should I do at this time?
>
>
>                     Jose Augusto Paixao Veiga
>        National Research for Space Studies - (CPTEC/INPE)
>
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Davide Sacchetti wrote:
>
> > template options apply only to ctl files, not to idx ones
> >
> > => fix index filename, eg.: fnl_0403.idx
> >
> > it should work ...
> >
> > bye bye
> >
> > Davide
> >
> > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 16:28 +0200, Jose Augusto Paixao Veiga wrote:
> > > Dears,
> > > I have been used grib2ctl.pl script to deal with grib data in grads. I've
> > > been  created several .idx and .ctl archieves from my grib data files. Then,
> > > I would like to deal with all those .ctl files using just one .ctl file with
> > > the options template inside it, however when I open the template.ctl the
> > > following message rises:
> > >
> > > ga-> open fnl_0403.ctl
> > >  Scanning description file:  fnl_0403.ctl
> > >  Open Error:  Can't open Station/Index map file fnl_0403%d2_%h2_00.idx
> > >   --> The invalid description file record is:
> > >   --> index ^fnl_0403%d2_%h2_00.idx
> > >
> > >   The data file was not opened.
> > >
> > > my .ctl file with templates starts as
> > >
> > > dset ^fnl_0403%d2_%h2_00
> > > index ^fnl_0403%d2_%h2_00.idx
> > > undef 9.999E+20
> > > options template
> > > title fnl_040321_00_00
> > > *  produced by grib2ctl v0.9.12.5p39a
> > > dtype grib 3
> > > options yrev
> > > ydef 181 linear -90.000000 1
> > > xdef 360 linear 0.000000 1.000000
> > > tdef 36 linear 00Z21mar2004 06hr
> > >
> > > what must I change in this .ctl file?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance
> > --
> > Sacchetti Davide
> > ARPAL UO3 Centro Meteo Idrologico Regione Liguria - Dir. Scientifica
> > V.le Brigare Partigiane 2 16121 Genova (I)
> > tel: +39 010 6437535
> > mail: davide.sacchetti at arpal.org   web: www.meteoliguria.it
> >
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Sacchetti Davide
ARPAL UO3 Centro Meteo Idrologico Regione Liguria - Dir. Scientifica
V.le Brigare Partigiane 2 16121 Genova (I)
tel: +39 010 6437535
mail: davide.sacchetti at arpal.org   web: www.meteoliguria.it