[gradsusr] Templating GFS analyses

[Jennifer M Adams]

Aside from the typo that Victor pointed out, you should use templates for initialization date and forecast hour: 
    DSET ^gfs_4_%iy4%im2%id2_%f200_000.grb2
Otherwise the date stamping won’t be correct if your forecast hour goes past 24.
—Jennifer


> On Dec 19, 2017, at 9:11 PM, Victor Gensini <vgensini at niu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave, 
> 
> In your example, you are missing the third zero before ".grb2"
> 
> Best, 
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> Dr. Vittorio (Victor) A. Gensini
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences
> Northern Illinois University
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> DeKalb, IL 60115
> http://wcs.niu.edu
> From: gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org <gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org> on behalf of Ryglicki, Dr. David <david.ryglicki at nrlmry.navy.mil>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 3:59:50 PM
> To: GrADS Users Forum
> Subject: [gradsusr] Templating GFS analyses
>  
> Hey, GrADS’ers.
>  
> Simple question about g2ctl and templating over GFS analyses. I’m pulling data from NCEP’s HAS system, and when I get the data, it looks something like this:
>  
> gfs_4_20120730_0000_000.grb2
> gfs_4_20120730_0600_000.grb2
> …
>  
> When I try templating with: “g2ctl -0 gfs_4_2012%m2%d2_%h200_00.grb2”, I get the error: ‘Argument “0730_00” isn’t numeric in numeric gt (>) at /path/to/g2ctl line 267.’
>  
> I can get around this pretty easily with some awk, but I was wondering… am I doing something wrong here, or is this just how it is?
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> ~Dave
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Jennifer Miletta Adams
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
George Mason University