Grib file Template !!

[kiran salunke]

Dear Eric Altshuler,

  Thank you very much for your kind & useful reply. My problem is solved
due to your solution.



best regards
kiran

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: Eric Altshuler <ela at COLA.IGES.ORG>
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
Sent: Thu, 7 May 2009 14:41:52 -0400
Subject: Re: Grib file Template !!

> Dear Kiran Salunke,
>
> You need to have the following in your dset line:
>
> dset ^T254_IND_%f2h.grb
>
> Use %f2 instead of %h2 because the time information in the file names is given
> by forecast hour (2 or 3 digits). You should also have all the options on one line:
>
> options yrev template
>
> And your tdef line should have 21 instead of 20 in it, because there are 21
> time levels (including the 00 hr forecast).
>
> Then run gribmap on the .ctl file after you make these changes.
>
> Best regards,
>
> 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
> Phone: (301) 902-1257
> Fax: (301) 595-9793
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kiran Salunke" <kiran at TROPMET.RES.IN>
> To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2009 7:58:16 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Grib file Template !!
>
> Hello everybody,
>       I have a data (6hrly) in grib format. I would like to make it in
> .ctl format using grib2ctl.pl script.It's a five day forecast (120 hr) files.
>
>    The following *.ctl working for one day i.e (06hr,12hr,18hr) it's not
> running for 24hr because it is next day.
>
> The files are as follow:
>
> T254_IND_00h.grb   T254_IND_36h.grb
> T254_IND_06h.grb   T254_IND_42h.grb
> T254_IND_12h.grb  T254_IND_48h.grb
> T254_IND_18h.grb  T254_IND_54h.grb
> T254_IND_24h.grb  .
> T254_IND_30h.grb  .
>                   . T254_IND_120h.grb
>
> ----------------------------------------
> I am writing in this way:
> ---------------------------------------------
> dset ^T254_IND_%h2h.grb
> index ^fcs.idx
> undef 9.999E+20
> title fcs
> *  produced by grib2ctl v0.9.12.5p45
> dtype grib 255
> options template
> options yrev
> ydef 161 linear -20.000000 0.5
> xdef 241 linear 20.000000 0.500000
> tdef 20 linear 00Z04may2009 06hr
> *  z has 26 levels, for prs
> zdef 26 levels
> 1000 975 950 925 900 850 800 750 700 650 600 550 500 450 400 350 300 250 200
> 150 100 70 50 30 20 10
> vars 222
> ........
> ........
> ......
> ........
> ......
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Mr.kiran salunke
> Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
> Dr. homi Bhabha rd, Ncl Post
> Pashan Pune-411008
> Maharashtra India.
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