[gradsusr] Problem creating Meteograms for specific locations in Malawi

Fri Jun 26 13:24:55 EDT 2015

Dear All,
 My attempts to use Jennifer's scripts have failed. Everytime I try to run
the script, GrADS is freezing and shut by itself without any error being
indicated. What could this be?
This is how I did it:

Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.2.oga.2
Copyright (c) 1988-2011 by Brian Doty and the
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information

Config: v2.0.2.oga.2 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds
hdf5 o
pendap-grids,stn athena geotiff shapefile
Issue 'q config' command for more detailed configuration information
Loading User Defined Extensions table
</cygdrive/c/OPENGR~1/Contents/Cygwin/Vers
ions/202OGA~1.2/i686/gex/udxt> ... ok.
*Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):  n*
GX Package Initialization: Size = 8.5 11
Command line history in \Users\vanya/.grads.log

*ga-> meteogram_GDS.gs*

the second attempt I tried to use the following;
*ga-> **grads -a 1 meteogram_GDS.gs*

On 26 June 2015 at 18:51, Ryan Hickman <ryan at allisonhouse.com> wrote:

> It looks like the GrADS Script (meteogram_gfs.gs) that you are using
> contains incorrect base URLs for seeking on the GrADS server.
>
> You could modify the GrADS Script to point to the correct Base URL, or use
> the scripts created by Jennifer Adams (COLA) at
> ftp://cola.gmu.edu/pub/jma/meteograms/. These scripts were updated
> recently, support the GFS 0.25º and appear to have the correct base URLs to
> retrieve the GFS datasets.
>
> NOMADS Base URL: http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs_0p25
> Monsoon Data Base URL: http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs0p25
>
> You can always view the available datasets on the server by removing
> "gfs_0p25 / "gfs0p25" from the URL and visiting it in your browser to get a
> listing.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Charles Langton Vanya <
> dolesibeni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear All
>> I am trying to create Meteograms using GrADS and I am facing enomous
>> challenegs. Here is what I did and the errors. Is there another way of
>> doing it?
>> ___________________________________________________________
>> ga-> meteograms.gfs.gs
>> Unknown command: meteograms.gfs.gs
>> ga-> meteograms_gfs.gs
>> Unknown command: meteograms_gfs.gs
>> ga-> meteogram_gfs.gs
>> Enter location name --> Chileka
>> Enter forecast date (yyyymmddhh) --> 2015062600
>> Enter longitude --> 34.97
>> Enter latitude --> -15.78
>> Metric units? [y/n] --> y
>> No hardcopy metafile open
>> All files closed; all defined objects released;
>> All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized
>> curl error details:
>> Error: nc_open failed to open file
>> http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/gfs.2015
>> 062600
>> NetCDF: I/O failure
>> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>> ga-> meteogram_gfs.gs
>> Enter location name --> Mimosa
>> Enter forecast date (yyyymmddhh) --> 2015062600
>> Enter longitude --> 35.62
>> Enter latitude --> -16.07
>> Metric units? [y/n] --> y
>> No hardcopy metafile open
>> All files closed; all defined objects released;
>> All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized
>> syntax error, unexpected WORD_STRING, expecting WORD_WORD
>> context: Error { code = 0; message = "/gfs/gfs.2015062600 is not an
>> available da
>> taset"^;};
>> Error: nc_open failed to open file
>> http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/gfs.2015
>> 062600
>> NetCDF: Malformed or inaccessible DAP DDS
>> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>> ga-> meteogram_gfs.gs
>> Enter location name --> Mimosa
>> Enter forecast date (yyyymmddhh) --> 2015062600
>> Enter longitude --> 35.62
>> Enter latitude --> -16.07
>> Metric units? [y/n] --> y
>> No hardcopy metafile open
>> All files closed; all defined objects released;
>> All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized
>> curl error details:
>> Error: nc_open failed to open file
>> http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs_hd/
>> gfs.2015062600
>> NetCDF: I/O failure
>> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>> ga-> meteogram_gfs.gs
>> Enter location name --> Mimosa
>> Enter forecast date (yyyymmddhh) --> 2015062600
>> Enter longitude --> 35.62
>> Enter latitude --> -16.07
>> Metric units? [y/n] --> y
>> No hardcopy metafile open
>> All files closed; all defined objects released;
>> All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized
>> syntax error, unexpected WORD_STRING, expecting WORD_WORD
>> context: Error { code = 0; message = "/gfs/gfs.2015062600 is not an
>> available da
>> taset"^;};
>> Error: nc_open failed to open file
>> http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/gfs.2015
>> 062600
>> NetCDF: Malformed or inaccessible DAP DDS
>> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>> ga-> meteogram.gs
>>
>> Check the URL http://cola8.iges.org:9090/dods/
>> for a list of all available forecasts.
>>
>> Enter forecast model (avn, avni, avnb, eta) --> eta
>> Enter forecast date (mmddhh) --> 062600
>> Enter longitude --> 35.62
>> Enter latitude --> -16.07
>> Enter location name --> Mimosa
>> Metric units? [y/n] --> y
>> Include stability indices? [y/n] --> y
>> No hardcopy metafile open
>> All files closed; all defined objects released;
>> All GrADS attributes have been reinitialized
>> curl error details:
>> Error: nc_open failed to open file
>> http://cola8.iges.org:9090/dods/eta062600
>> NetCDF: I/O failure
>> gadsdf: Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
>> ga->
>> ___________________________________________________
>> Charles vanya
>>
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