[gradsusr] Reanalysis from ECMWF

Jennifer Adams jma at cola.iges.org
Fri Feb 15 13:22:17 EST 2013


On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Marie Staerk wrote:

> It works for me now :)
> 
> I did some beginners mistake with some other things...
> 
> But I have some problem with my descriptor file. How do I define ZDEF when i have a vertical integral? 
If your variable does not vary in Z, it doesn't really matter what you put for ZDEF. Something like 'ZDEF 1 linear 0 1' should be fine.
--Jennifer

> 
> Marie
> 
> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:48:01 -0500
> From: wesley.ebisuzaki at noaa.gov
> To: gradsusr at gradsusr.org
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Reanalysis from ECMWF
> 
> Marie,
> 
>    What happened when you used grib2ctl to make the ctl file?
> 
>      grib2ctl.pl EC.grb >EC.ctl
>      gribmap -0 -i EC.ctl
> 
>      Wesley
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Marie Staerk <mariestaerk at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello I am a meteorology student from Sweden and I am doing my bachelor thesis.
> 
> I am a beginner in using GrADS and I have a problem when I work with ECMWF reanalysis (ERA-Interim). I download them in GRIB-format (1.5x15 resolution) and then tries to decode them with wgrib. I don´t get any information about the lon and lat, but since I have the resolution from the download, that shouldn´t be any problem. 
> 
> Then I create the .ctl file and tries to run the script. Then an error code shows for every value saying: GRIB grid size does not match descriptorand I do not get any matches. I have defined XDEF as XDEF 240 linear 0.0 1.5 and YDEF as YDEF 121 linear -90.0 1.5.
> 
> The strange thing is that it does not work on my computers but he same .ctl works at my friend´s computer and I do not have any problem using grib2-files.
> 
> Kind Regards 
> Marie Staerk
> 
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