Problem with ctl file

[Ricardo Hallak]

Hi,

have you run the gribmap utility before opening GrADS?

gribmap -i  first.ctl

I hope it helps.
Ricardo

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:31:44 -0400, luis blacutt wrote
> Dear Grads users,
> 
> I'm writing a ctl file to open 12 files, 
> 
> baseline1pmg2jantp.grb
> baseline1pmg2febtp.grb
> and so on
> 
> my ctl file is as follows:
> 
> dset ^baseline1pmg2%mctp.grb
> index ^baseline1pmg2%mctp.grb.idx
> options template
> undef 9.999E+20
> title Temperature at 1.5 m
> *  produced by LFA 0.3
> dtype grib 255
> options yrev
> ydef 37 linear -23.960000 0.439
> xdef 36 linear -72.240000 0.440000
> tdef 12 linear 00Z01jan1962 1mo
> zdef 1 linear 1 1
> vars 1
> s03236  0 236,105,0  **
> ENDVARS
> 
> As for now I'm trying to open only 12 files, with one variable, the error I get is:
> 
> Scanning description file:  first.ctl
> Open Error:  Can't open Station/Index map file baseline1pmg2%mctp.grb.idx 
>   The data file was not opened. 
> 
> What can I do?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Luis
>

Ricardo Hallak

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