[gradsusr] GrADS to GRIB-1

Arlindo da Silva dasilva at alum.mit.edu
Tue Nov 30 20:27:11 EST 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Matei Georgescu <Matei.Georgescu at asu.edu>wrote:

> Greetings once more,
>
> Half answering my own question ... opengrads does make things quite easy if
> one wishes to go from Grads readable binary to GRIB-1.
>
> One question that I hope lats4d users can assist me with. I use OpenGrADS
> v2.0.a7.oga.3
>
> At the prompt, I issue the following command:
> lats4d -v -q -i mycontrolfile.ctl -o myoutputfile -format grads_grib
>
> The GRIB file produced does have the data that I need. However, the GRIB-1
> parameter that lats4d uses is incorrect. "PSFC" is used to describe the GRIB
> contents (GRIB-1 parameter '1'). How can I control the parameter, level type
> (which happens to be correct), and the parameter name (the file I have is
> for terrain data)?
>
>
Have you read the manual?

ga-> lats4d -h

In particular the section called "LATS PARAMETER TABLE".

   Arlindo




> thanks much,
> matei
>
>
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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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