Grads 2.0 with grib2 files

[Wesley Ebisuzaki]

Oliver,

If you examine the ctl file closely, you'll see that there are two time
steps.
If you do "set t 2", then all the fields will appear.  This is a temporary
fix until wgrib2 can be made consistent with gribmap.  (For temporally
averaged quantities, wgrib2 returns the time when the period started
and gribmap uses the time when the period ended.)

    Wesley Ebisuzaki





Oliver König wrote:
> Hello,
> I installed Grads 2.0 binaries on Debian/GNU Linux testing (64 bit) because I
> want to work with grib2  data from NCEP.
>
> Installation of grads 2.0 binaries
> ----------------------------------
> $ wget ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a0-RHEL5-x86_64.tar.gz
> $ tar xvfz grads-bin-2.0.a0-RHEL5-x86_64.tar.gz
> $ cp grads-2.0.a0/bin/* /usr/bin
>
> Installation of grads data files
> --------------------------------
> $ cd /usr/local/lib/
> $ mkdir grads
> $ cd grads
> $ wget ftp://iges.org/grads/data.tar.Z
> $ tar xvfz data.tar.Z
>
> Test grib2 data in grads
> ---------------------------
> $ wget ftp://ncep.domain.tld/gfs_grib2.file
> $ g2ctl.pl -verf gfs_grib2.file > gfs_grib2.ctl
> $ gribmap -i gfs_grib2.ctl
>
> $ grads
> ga-> open gfs2_grib2.ctl
> ga-> q file
> ga-> d tmpsfc
> Cannot contour grid - all undefined values
>
> The grib2.file is from an operational NOAA/NCEP server so I guess the file and
> the format are okay. I managed to display grib1 data in Grads 2.0. does
> anyone have an idea what the problem is? Help is welcome. thanks!
>
> Regards,
> --
> Oliver König
>