[gradsusr] help with templating

Jeff Duda jeffduda319 at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 16:04:39 EST 2014


Yes.

tdef 8 linear 19Z19may2013 1hr


Jeff

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:58 PM, James T. Potemra <jimp at hawaii.edu> wrote:

>  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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Jeff Duda
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University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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