[gradsusr] dispplay bufr

Tatiana.Gonzalez Tatiana.Gonzalez at noaa.gov
Wed Oct 6 16:59:41 EDT 2010


Hello,
I'm trying to use grads to open a bufr file (see attach file) but I 
don't get any display, I just get an empty map with no wind vectors. Can 
you please help me in getting a correct display
Thank you,

My descriptor file is this:
dset ^SAFNWC_MSG2_ASII_200812121045_Region_ZAMG_.IRAMV.buf
title "Test Bufr data"
undef 1e+20
DTYPE bufr
XVAR 6,2
YVAR 5,2
TVAR yr 4,1 mo 4,2 dy 4,3 hr 4,4 mn 4,5 sc 4,6
TDEF 1 LINEAR 10:45Z12dec2008 1hr
STID 31,2
vars 4
slat 0 5,2 Station latitude
slon 0 6,2 Station longitude
u 0 11,3 u component
v 0 11,4 v component
endvars

*GrADS session *
Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a8
Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information
Config: v2.0.a8 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds 
hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile
Issue 'q config' command for more information.
Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):
GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5
ga-> open modbufTest.ctl
Scanning description file:  modbufTest.ctl
Warning: OPTIONS keyword "template" is used, but the
    DSET entry contains no substitution templates.
Data file SAFNWC_MSG2_ASII_200812121045_Region_ZAMG_.IRAMV.buf is open 
as file 1
LON set to 0 360
LAT set to -90 90
LEV set to 500 500
Time values set: 2008:12:12:10 2008:12:12:10
E set to 1 1
ga-> set gxout vector
ga-> d u;v

-- 
Tatiana D. Gonzalez
National Oceanic&  Atmospheric Administration
Meteorological Development Laboratory
1325 East-West Highway
SSMC2,  Room 10330
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3283
Ph.(301)713-0056 x 118
Fax. (301)713-9316

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