[gradsusr] Different output values from Grads and wgrib2

[Bo Zhang]

Hi John,

I just started using Grads. I used g2ctl and gribmap to generate the ctl and index file, which are all attached. The weird thing to me is, I tried out several fnl and gfs data files, I have this bump at 30mb for every of those.

Bo Zhang
Dow 824,Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michigan Tech University
1400 Townsends Drive.
Houghton, MI, 49931

Bo Zhang
Dow 824,Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michigan Tech University
1400 Townsends Drive. 
Houghton, MI, 49931

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Huddleston" <Huddleston at cira.colostate.edu>
To: "GrADS Users Forum" <gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 8:37:07 AM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected
Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Different output values from Grads and wgrib2

Hi Bo

Attached is tmp at 30mb displayed in GrADS for the date time you use.  There is no 300.

What is your GrADS control file?

John Huddleston

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From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] On Behalf Of Bo Zhang [bzhang3 at mtu.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 6:59 PM
To: gradsusr at gradsusr.org
Subject: [gradsusr] Different output values from Grads and wgrib2

Hi great grads users,

I was trying to plot temperature profile with Grads and just found different results from Grads and wgrib2. I am sure that I am reading the same data file. I got the attached profile plot from Grads and the following result from wgrib2 at the same position. One thing should be noticed is that Gtads and wgrib2 number the grid box in different ways. The (0, 0) grid box in Grads (-180:179, -90,90) should be (181,91) in a (0:360, 0,181) system. The bump at 30 mb in the figure exists for any lon-lat position I try, which is wired to me. The other values are also slightly various.

$ ./wgrib2 ***/Grads/fnl_20100508_06_00 -s -ij 181 91 | grep :TMP
3:120296:d=2010050806:TMP:10 mb:anl::val=240.5
8:393851:d=2010050806:TMP:20 mb:anl::val=220.9
13:666758:d=2010050806:TMP:30 mb:anl::val=215.9
18:961202:d=2010050806:TMP:50 mb:anl::val=204.1
23:1271647:d=2010050806:TMP:70 mb:anl::val=193.5
28:1588656:d=2010050806:TMP:100 mb:anl::val=190.7
36:1997953:d=2010050806:TMP:150 mb:anl::val=207.4
43:2356630:d=2010050806:TMP:200 mb:anl::val=223.1
50:2732191:d=2010050806:TMP:250 mb:anl::val=235.9
57:3106953:d=2010050806:TMP:300 mb:anl::val=244.9
64:3498361:d=2010050806:TMP:350 mb:anl::val=254.5
71:3898258:d=2010050806:TMP:400 mb:anl::val=260.8
78:4302495:d=2010050806:TMP:450 mb:anl::val=266.3
85:4751606:d=2010050806:TMP:500 mb:anl::val=270.9
92:5208947:d=2010050806:TMP:550 mb:anl::val=274.5
99:5689297:d=2010050806:TMP:600 mb:anl::val=277.9
106:6172793:d=2010050806:TMP:650 mb:anl::val=282.1
113:6640256:d=2010050806:TMP:700 mb:anl::val=284.2
120:7112632:d=2010050806:TMP:750 mb:anl::val=286
127:7585314:d=2010050806:TMP:800 mb:anl::val=289.1
134:8055101:d=2010050806:TMP:850 mb:anl::val=291.8
141:8545830:d=2010050806:TMP:900 mb:anl::val=294.6
148:9033256:d=2010050806:TMP:925 mb:anl::val=296.2
155:9515141:d=2010050806:TMP:950 mb:anl::val=297.4
162:9986444:d=2010050806:TMP:975 mb:anl::val=299.5
169:10444342:d=2010050806:TMP:1000 mb:anl::val=301.6


Bo Zhang
Dow 824,Civil and Environmental Engineering
Michigan Tech University
1400 Townsends Drive.
Houghton, MI, 49931
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