[gradsusr] Extracting time specific grib data using wgrib

Charles Langton Vanya dolesibeni at gmail.com
Tue May 8 16:02:52 EDT 2018


Thanks, I'll check them out.

On Tue, 8 May 2018, 08:50 Davide Sacchetti, <davide.sacchetti at arpal.gov.it>
wrote:

> I don't understand perfectly, but you could:
>
> 1) extract data on surface with wgrib ... | wgrib -grib -i
> 2) append data on pressure levs with wgrib ... | wgrib -append -grib -i
> ...
>
> furthermore you can always join different grib datasets:
> cat dataset_surface dataset_levels > dataset_all
> or
> cat dataset_surface >> dataset_levels
>
> pay attention that grads works ONLY with the two datasets are on the
> same horizontal grid
>
> Davide
>
> On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 20:06 +0000, Charles Vanya wrote:
> > Dear David,
> > Your direction worked perfectly. Now another question would be, is it
> > possible to combine variables extracted from grib data on the surface
> > and grib data at different pressure levels such that in the end i
> > should have all pressure level variables and  surface or ground
> > variables? In the end i just need one grib data set file that
> > contains variables from two different files with different levels as
> > well.
> > Your
> > Charles Vanya
> >
> > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
> >
> > > On Mon, 7 May 2018 at 10:02, Davide Sacchetti
> > > <davide.sacchetti at arpal.gov.it> wrote:
> > > wgrib all_cosmodata | grep ':78hr fcst:' | egrep -i ":VGRD:|:UGRD:"
> > > \
> > > | wgrib -grib -i  all_cosmodata
> > >
> > > (in our suite U:kpds5=33:kpds6=110 -> UGRD)
> > >
> > >
> > > bye bye
> > > Davide
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2018-05-07 at 05:07 +0000, Charles Vanya wrote:
> > > > Dear All,
> > > > I am humbly looking for assistance. I have hourly data from COSMO
> > > > model which span for 78 hours and is in grib format. I would like
> > > to
> > > > extract specific variables for the whole 78hours and concatenate
> > > it
> > > > as one grib file.
> > > > I have tried to concatenate the files and when i run the wgrib
> > > > command to extract the variables i am looking for, i am only
> > > getting
> > > > data file for 2 days.
> > > > I started like this:
> > > > cat lfff00000000c lfff*00 > all_cosmodata
> > > >  To extract for specific variables
> > > > wgrib all_cosmodata | egrep -i
> > > > ":V:kpds5=34:kpds6:=110:|:U:kpds5=33:kpds6=110:" | wgrib -grep
> > > -i
> > > > all_cosmodata -o cosmodata_uv
> > > > Here am trying to extract surface u and v component of wind for
> > > all
> > > > 78hrs.
> > > > However my output shows me that i have only extracted two hours
> > > data.
> > > > Now my question is, how can i include the time steps so that i
> > > > extract all 78 hrs at once.
> > > > Your assistance will be highly appreciated.
> > > > Charles Langton Vanya
> > > > Chief Meteorological
> > > > Prediction Section
> > > > Dept. of Climate Change and Meteorological Services
> > > > P.O.Box 1808,
> > > > Blantyre.
> > > > Malawi
> > > > Tel:+265888980545
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> > >
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