grib2ctl template option problem

[Matthias Munnich]

Hi Kathrin,

I believe grib2ctl.pl does not understand templates.  What I do in such
cases is:

(1) Pick the first file and run grib2ctl.pl on it:
$ grib2ctl.pl iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_01_01_09.grb >
iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006.ctl

(2) Edit iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006.ctl:
(2.1) Add an "options template" line.
(2.2) Change the dset line to
dset iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_%m2_%d2_%h2.grb
(2.3) Adjust the number of time steps in the tdef line to whatever the
total number of time steps is in all files together.  If you
only have one time step per file, you also need to choose the proper
time interval.

(3) Finally run gribmap on iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006.ctl.

Schöne Grüße!

Matt(hias)

Kathrin Schoellhammer wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I have a lot of gribfiles for one parameter in one directory for each year
> named e.g.
>
>  iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_01_01_09.grb
>  iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_01_01_21.grb
>  iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_01_02_09.grb
>  iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_01_02_21.grb
> .....
> I try to make one ctl file for each year with grib2ctl
> ($version="0.9.12.5p39c")  on a linux PC in that way
>
> grib2ctl.pl iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006_%m2_%d2_%h2.grb
> iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+2006.idx iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E.pdef > TEMP-E+2006.ctl
>
> but all I get is an errormessage:
>
> Error: could not find any files in directory:blabla
>
> I need a lot of ctl files (9 parameter for 10 years, so I will NOT make the
> ctl files manually....
>
> Thanks a lot for help,
>
> Kathrin
>


--
--------------------------------
Matthias Munnich
Univ. of California, Los Angeles
Dept. of Atmos. and Oceanic Sc. and
Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics
3845 Slichter Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567
Phone: +1-310-794 5899
Fax: +1-310-206 3051
Email: munnich at atmos.ucla.edu
--------------------------------