fw file to ctl file Sorry everyone

[Daniel Fritz]

Hello everyone,
  I am so sorry for pasting that last message ,,,I did
not realize it was that long please disregard the last
message...I did not mean to take up so much space
                 Danny
--- Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2008 9:47 AM, Steven Weiss
> <sweiss at iafrica.com> wrote:
>
> >  Hi Arlindo,
> >
> > I downloaded the latest lats4d.gs and am getting
> errors. See reults below.
> >
>
> Hmm. I got this to work:
>
>  lats4d -i
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/nww3_18z
> -o
> test -lat -35 -30 -lon 17.5 30 -v -format grads_grib
>  -vars htsgwsfc
>
> BTW, I am using
>
> lats4d: Version 1.9.4 of 28 Nov 2007
>
> while you seem to be using a much earlier version:
>
> lats4d: Version 1.7 of 10 May 2006
>
> I am attaching my latest. I'll be posting this on
> sf.net shortly.
>
>   Let me know whether it works.
>
>         Arlindo
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >
> > Regards
> > Steven
> >
> > 1ga-> lats4d -i
> >
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/n3_18z
> -o
> > test -vars htsgwsfs -lat -35 -30 -lon 17.5 30 -v
> -format grads_grib
> > lats4d: Version 1.7 of 10 May 2006
> > No hardcopy metafile open
> > All files closed; all defined objects released
> > All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized
> > Scanning self-describing file:
> >
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/nww3_18z
> > Found 11 data variables in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable dirpwsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable dirswsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable htsgwsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable perpwsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable perswsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable ugrdsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable vgrdsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable wdirsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable windsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable wvdirsfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > Found displayable variable wvpersfc with 0 levels
> in SDF file.
> > lats4d: Data file is
> > File 1 : WAVE_nww3 Global wave model fcst from
> 18Z06feb2008, downloaded
> > Feb 06 23:11 UTC
> >   Descriptor:
> >
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/nww3_18z
> >   Binary:
> >
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/nww3_18z
> >   Type = Gridded
> >   Xsize = 288  Ysize = 157  Zsize = 1  Tsize = 61
> >   Number of Variables = 11
> >     dirpwsfc 0 -999 ** surface primary wave
> direction [deg]
> >     dirswsfc 0 -999 ** surface secondary wave
> direction [deg]
> >     htsgwsfc 0 -999 ** surface sig height of wind
> waves and swell [m]
> >     perpwsfc 0 -999 ** surface primary wave mean
> period [s]
> >     perswsfc 0 -999 ** surface secondary wave mean
> period [s]
> >     ugrdsfc 0 -999 ** surface u wind [m/s]
> >     vgrdsfc 0 -999 ** surface v wind [m/s]
> >     wdirsfc 0 -999 ** surface wind direction [deg]
> >     windsfc 0 -999 ** surface wind speed [m/s]
> >     wvdirsfc 0 -999 ** surface direction of wind
> waves [deg]
> >     wvpersfc 0 -999 ** surface mean period of wind
> waves [s]
> >
> > lats4d: Dimension environment file same as data
> file
> > lats4d: creating LATS PARAMETER TABLE file
> .grads.lats.table
> > LATS warning (lats_parmtab): Closing the
> previously opened Parameter
> > Table: .grads.lats.table
> > lats4d: time range: 18Z06FEB2008 18Z06FEB2008 by
> 1, delta t: 3 hourly
> > lats4d: vertical levels:  0
> > lats4d: invalid plev 0 for GRIB output
> > lats4d: using HYBRID level number for vertical
> coordinate
> > lats4d: latitudinal  range: -35 -30
> > lats4d: longitudinal range: 17.5 30
> > Failure reading SDF data.  #1
> > Data Request Error:  Error for variable 'dirpwsfc'
> >   Error ocurred at column 1
> > DISPLAY error:  Invalid expression
> >   Expression = dirpwsfc
> > lats4d: error creating grads_grib file test.grb
> > Original Message -----
> >
> > *From:* Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at ALUM.MIT.EDU>
> > *To:* GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> > *Sent:* Friday, February 08, 2008 3:56 PM
> > *Subject:* Re: GradsDODS
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2008 1:44 AM, Steven Weiss
> <sweiss at iafrica.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  Hi,
> > > I am downloading a grib file and processing it
> through my script. It all
> > > works great. I have since discovered that I can
> avoid the 34mb download by
> > > using gradsdods and opening up a server url e.g.
> > >
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/nww3_18z
> > >
> > > I can run my script over this successfully
> however it is painfully slow.
> > > I am retrieving all the variables over 180hr for
> a specified lat/lon grid
> > > point.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Grib2 has great compression capabilities at the
> expense of speed: it takes
> > time to decompress the files. While switching to
> GRIB2 may have decresead
> > data storage requirementments for the data
> producers and download time for
> > the people getting the actual files, it certainly
> caused a degradation of
> > the OPeNDAP services for sites serving the grib-2
> files directly.
> >
> >
> > >
> > > A little bit of investigation tells me that I
> should be downloading a
> > > subset of the data to my local drive i.e. a
> lat/lon range and running my
> > > script over that instead.
> > >
> > > How can I do this? Some examples would be
> useful.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > If you want to do this over OPeNDAP you can use
> lats4d (see recent posting
> > for the latest script). Here is an example for
> creating a subset of the
> > data:
> >
> > lats4d -i
> >
>
http://nomad5.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/waves/nww3/nww320080206/nww3_18z
>  -o
> > myfile -vars *ugrdsfc *vg*rdsfc -lat 20 60 -lon
> -100 20 -v*
> > **
> >
> > If you omit -vars, you get all variables, if you
> omit the -lat/-lon you
> > get the whole domain; you can also specify
> -time/-levs if you would like to
>
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