grib2ctl template option problem

[Wesley Ebisuzaki]

Hi Kathrin,

    grib2ctl.pl handles templates but the date has to be one number.
For example,

        iMET-ECMWF-IFS-TEMP-E+YYYYMMDDHH.grb

should work.  Should be better documented.

     Wesley


Matthias Munnich wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
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