[gradsusr] Snow depth in GFS files?

[Andreas Schneider]

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 20:24, Ivan Toman <ivtoman at inet.hr> wrote:
>
> I'm accustomed to use "weasdsfc" variable from GFS to display snow cover
> depth (in fact, it's water equivalent). But, it seems that this variable
> is now empty - it looks like it does not work anymore after major GFS
> upgrade performed on date 2010-07-28. The files I use are
> "gfs.t12z.pgrb2bfxx" from
> http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Now GrADS gives "Cannot contour grid - all undefined values" if I
> display "weasdsfc" variable. Is there any workaround to get snow cover
> depth from GFS now?

The sflux files have both WEASD and SNOD. The master files on
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/ contain most (all?) of the sflux files
reduced to a simple .5° grid.

Andreas