Template CTL for ungribed data

[Eric Altshuler]

Dear Jose,

You can't use template substitution strings (%...) in the name of the index file. You can have many data files, but only one index file for the whole set. When you create the index file using gribmap, specify an output file name without any template substitution strings, and then specify the index file name in the INDEX line in the ctl file.

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

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga" <veiga.uea at GMAIL.COM>
To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
Sent: Friday, April 2, 2010 2:15:27 PM
Subject: Template CTL for ungribed data

Dear GrAds users, 

Trying to open a ctl (template) file for a small number of archives (grib and idx), I've been facing the following problem: 

>Scanning description file: fnl.ctl 
>Open Error: Can't open Station/Index map file fnl_201003%d2_%h2_00.idx 
>The data file was not opened. 

A part of my ctl file is put bellow, 

DSET ^fnl_201003%d2_%h2_00 
INDEX ^fnl_201003%d2_%h2_00.idx 
UNDEF 9.999E+20 
TITLE fnl_20100301_00_00 
* produced by grib2ctl v0.9.12.5p39c 
DTYPE grib 3 
OPTIONS template yrev 
YDEF 181 linear -90.000000 1 
XDEF 360 linear 0.000000 1.000000 
TDEF 100 linear 00Z01mar2010 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 
. 
. 
. 
ENDVARS 

What could be wrong in the construction of this template ctl file? 

Cheers! 


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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 3:02 PM, eliav schmulewitz < eliavs at gmail.com > wrote: 



hi 
gifsicle is a very easy to use utility 
you should download it 
and to call it from with in grads ad '!' to the begining of the command 
if you need an example i can send you some 
eliav