[gradsusr] Error while using grib2ctl.pl in GRADS

[Anil acharya]

Hi
I tried both of them g2ctl.pl and grib2ctl.pl with wgrib and wgrib2. Still its the same error. Any other suggestions?

 
Anil


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From: Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu>
To: Anil acharya <acharya_anil at yahoo.com>; GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
Sent: Friday, November 4, 2011 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Error while using grib2ctl.pl in GRADS


On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Anil acharya <acharya_anil at yahoo.com> wrote:

Hi
>I was trying to create the .ctl file for .grb files using GRADS. I came with the error message as follows:
>"Big problem
>either .grb file is missing or not a grib file

Any chance your file is a GRIB-2 file? The urilities wgrib and grib2ctl.pl assume GRIB-1. You will need wgrib2 and g2ctl.pl for GRIB-2 files. Google for it.

   Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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