<div>I'm trying to recover MSL pressure and 10m winds from GFS Analysis Complete using the GrADSDODS script below, but it gives me this error even though vgrd10m is listed in the 145 variables available. Is there something I'm missing here?</div> <div> </div> <div>d vgrd10m<BR>Failure reading SDF data. #1<BR>Data Request Error: Error for variable 'vgrd10m'<BR> Error ocurred at column 1<BR>DISPLAY error: Invalid expression <BR> Expression = vgrd10m<BR>EXEC error: error in GetCompAnal.txt. EXEC stopped.<BR></div> <div>sdfopen <A href="http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/dods/NCEP_GFS_ANALYSIS/analysis_complete">http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/dods/NCEP_GFS_ANALYSIS/analysis_complete</A><BR>set lev 1000<BR>set lat -60 -20<BR>set lon 150 220</div> <div>* Open a file for binary data<BR>set gxout fwrite<BR>set fwrite test.bin<BR>* Retrieve latitude and longitude<BR>set t 2000<BR>* Retrieve latitudes<BR>
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lat<BR>* Retrieve longitudes<BR>d lon<BR>* Retrieve pressures<BR>d prmsl<BR>* Retrieve northward 10 m wind<BR>d vgrd10m<BR>* Retrieve eastward 10 m wind<BR>d ugrd10m<BR>* Write the times off to a file<BR>writetime test.tim</div> <div>close 1<BR>disable fwrite</div> <div>quit<BR></div><BR><BR>________________<br>Derek Goring<br>Mulgor Consulting Ltd<br>24 Brockworth Place<br>Christchurch, New Zealand<br>Phone: 64 3 343 5400<br>Mobile: 64 272 777 639<br>Website: www.mulgor.co.nz<p>Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com