Reading GFS GRIB2 files: issues with gribmap

[Kevin M Levey]

To create the IDX file.

On Jul 22, 2008, at 07/22/08 - 12:58 PM, Eric Altshuler wrote:

> Hi Kevin,
>
> If you can use g2ctl to generate the index file, why do you run
> gribmap at all?
>
>
> Eric L. Altshuler
> Assistant Research Scientist
> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
> 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> Calverton, MD 20705-3106
> USA
>
> E-mail: ela at cola.iges.org
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> perl g2ctl.pl $REMOTE_DIR1/gfs.t12z.pgrbf00.grb2 $TEMP_DIR/
> gfs2.t12z.pgrbf00.idx >$TEMP_DIR/gfs2_000.ctl
>
> This will create both the CTL and IDX files in *my* TEMP_DIR using
> data from *my* data source folder (it can be whatever you want it to
> be)
>
> Then the following:
>
> $GRADS2_DIR/gribmap -0 -i $TEMP_DIR/gfs2_000.ctl
>
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