[gradsusr] help with templating

[James T. Potemra]

Jeff:

How do you define time in your control.ctl file?  Do you define the 
start time to be 19:00?

Jim

On 12/8/14, 10:55 AM, Jeff Duda wrote:
> I have a series of post-processed WRF files that were run through the 
> UPP. I selected only a certain range of forecast hours to be processed 
> (fhrs 19 through 26). To view these data using one control file in 
> GrADS I used the following template string
>
> dset ^WRFPRS_d01.%f2
>
> which corresponds to file names like
> WRFPRS_d01.22
> WRFPRS_d01.23
> WRFPRS_d01.24
> WRFPRS_d01.25
>
> Yet when I run gribmap, I get errors because it assumes I'm starting 
> at hour 00:
>
> -bash-4.1$ gribmap -e -i control.ctl
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.00
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.00
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.01
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.01
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.02
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.02
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.03
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.03
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.04
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.04
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.05
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.05
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.06
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.06
>  grib1map:  opening GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.07
>  grib1map warning: could not open GRIB file: WRFPRS_d01.07
>  grib1map:  reached end of files
>  grib1map:  writing the map...
>
> If I change the template string to %h2 instead of %f2, it resets to
> WRFPRS_d01.00
> after looking for
> WRFPRS_d01.23,
> so it doesn't encompass the entire forecast range I'm looking for.
>
> I can get around this problem by using the %ch template string, but 
> this seems unnecessarily complicated for what I'm trying to do. Does 
> anyone know why this happens or have a suggestion for a better template?
>
> Jeff Duda
> -- 
> Jeff Duda
> Graduate research assistant
> University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
> Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
>
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