Problems reading BUFR file

[Diane Stokes]

Here's a quick guess...

You have in your gribscan output:

   0 05 002  (numeric) CLAT     Latitude (coarse accuracy)
   0 06 002  (numeric) CLON     Longitude (coarse accuracy)


but in your ctl file:

xvar 6,1
yvar 5,2


Try changing that xvar definition in your ctl file to:

xvar 6,2


    Diane


Bob Kuligowski wrote:
>    I am attempting to read and display a BUFR file in GrADS.  When I
> run 'bufrscan' the output is the attached 'headers.txt' file.  I tried
> to follow the directions in the BUFR entry of
> http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/gadocindex.html to produce a GrADS
> control file, which is attached as 'testbufr.ctl'.  I can open the .ctl
> file in GrADS with no problem, but when I try 'set gxout print' followed
> by 'd ' of any of the variables in the .ctl file, I always get "Printing
> stations -- 0 Reports -- Undef = -979".  My presumption is that the
> variables in the .ctl file are pointing at the wrong X and Y, but I'm
> using the files that I found in headers.txt.
>
>    Any thoughts?  Thanks in advance...
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Bob Kuligowski, Ph.D.
> Meteorologist
> NOAA/NESDIS/Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR)
>
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>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>

    < top of gribscan output snipped - dcs >

> 3 61 118  (sequence)
>   0 04 043  (numeric) JULDAY   JULIAN DAY
>   0 04 004  (numeric) HOUR     Hour
>   0 04 005  (numeric) MINU     Minute
>   0 60 006  (numeric) SCSTTM   SCAN START TIME
>   0 60 003  (numeric) SCANUM   SCAN NUMBER
>   0 60 004  (numeric) NUMSCEN  NUMBER OF SCENES IN SCAN
>   0 05 002  (numeric) CLAT     Latitude (coarse accuracy)
>   0 06 002  (numeric) CLON     Longitude (coarse accuracy)
>   0 60 005  (numeric) SCENEN   SCENE NUMBER
>   0 60 093  (numeric) RF1      Rain Flag 1 (Odd Scan)
>   0 60 094  (numeric) RF2      Rain Flag 2 (Odd Scan)
>   0 60 162  (numeric) RR       Rain Rate
>   0 60 090  (numeric) SURFTG   SURFACE TAG
>   0 60 163  (numeric) LSURFTY  L Surface Type
>   0 60 175  (numeric) SNWDPTH  SNOW DEPTH
>   0 60 165  (numeric) LSOILM   L Soil Moisture
>   0 60 166  (numeric) LSURFTM  L Surface Temp
>   0 60 167  (numeric) ICSNEDG  Ice/Snow Edge
>   0 60 168  (numeric) ICONC    Ice Concentration
>   0 60 169  (numeric) ICEAGE   Ice Age
>   0 60 170  (numeric) OSWSF    Ocean Surface Wind Speed Flag
>   0 60 171  (numeric) OWV      Ocean Water Vapor
>   0 60 172  (numeric) OSWS     Ocean Surface Wind Speed
>   0 60 173  (numeric) OCW      Ocean Cloud Water
>   0 60 174  (numeric) OCA      Ocean Cloud Amount
>   0 60 164  (numeric) SSWC     Surf Snow Water Content
>

    < bulk of gribscan output snipped - dcs >

>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> dset ^../Data/NPR.EDEB.SA.D06263.S0549.E0735.B1508081.NS
> title Test BUFR description file
> undef -979
> dtype bufr
> stid 1,198
> xvar 6,1
> yvar 5,2
> tvar yr 4,1 mo 4,2 dy 4,3 hr 4,4 mn 4,5
> stid 1 1
> tdef 1 LINEAR 13:00Z01SEP2006 1hr
> vars 20
> slon 0 6,2 Station longitude
> slat 0 5,2 Station latitude
> scenen   0 60,005 Scene number
> rf1      0 60,093 Rain flag 1
> rf2      0 60,094 Rain flag 2
> rainrate 0 60,162 Rain Rate
> surftg   0 60,090 Surface tag
> lsurty   0 60,163 L Surface type
> snwdpth  0 60,175 Snow depth
> lsoilm   0 60,165 L Soil moisture
> lsurftm  0 60,166 L Surface temp
> icsnedg  0 60,167 Ice/snow edge
> iconc    0 60,168 Ice concentration
> iceage   0 60,169 Ice age
> oswsf    0 60,170 Ocean surface wind speed flag
> owv      0 60,171 Ocean water vapor
> osws     0 60,172 Ocean surface wind speed
> ocw      0 60,173 Ocean cloud water
> oca      0 60,174 Ocean cloud amount
> sswc     0 60,164 Surf cnow water content
> endvars

--
Diane Stokes
Environmental Modeling Center
National Weather Service/NOAA