<div>HEY Hai Ru,</div> <div> I tried to use gribmap -v -i Y62277*.ctl to get my Y62277*.idx files</div> <div> but it keeps on saying: ERROR IN GRD SPECIFICATION for GRIB GRID TYPE 29/30</div> <div>when i print out my ctl file : it's dtype grib 29 , it also says GRID SCALING MUST INDICATE 2.5x2.5 GRID, GRID SIZE MUST BE 144x73, GRID MUST GO FROM 0 to 357.5 and -90 to 90...........</div> <div> How do I make these modifications...I think if I do, my idex file will generate and then run in Grads along with the control file(ctl).......</div> <div> anyone have any suggestions?????</div>
<div> DANNY <BR><BR><B><I>Hai-Ru Chang <hrc@EAS.GATECH.EDU></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hell Jennifer, <DIV> First please make sure the TDEF has correct time steps and time increment. Then use gribmap -v -i Y62277*.ctl to get your Y62277*.idx files. The you can use grads as usual.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV>
<DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Hai _ru</DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 17, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Daniel Fritz wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>Hi Chang,</DIV> <DIV> No, I did not , how do I go about doing that......whew! I have been up all night trying to figure this out . would I type </DIV> <DIV> grib2ctl.pl Y62277* > Y62277*.ctl</DIV> <DIV> gribmap -i Y62277*.ctl -0</DIV> <DIV>when I first got this file mget_ds0830_fnl.tar I untar it then I got these
eppressions Y62277</DIV> <DIV>which is a data, each time a picked my dates and downloaded the mget .....I untar all of them.......now I am trying to convert them so that it will open in grads......<BR><BR><B><I>Hai-Ru Chang <<A href="mailto:hrc@EAS.GATECH.EDU">hrc@EAS.GATECH.EDU</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hi Danny, <DIV> Did you use the command 'gribmap' to get a accompany .idx file?</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Dr. Hai-Ru Chang</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Georgia Institute of Technology</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Atlanta, GA 30332-0340</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">tel: 404-385-4404</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR
class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 17, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Daniel Fritz wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV>hello everyone, </DIV> <DIV> could someone help me? I have downloaded some data from the NCAR(DSS, CISL) website site because I am tracking hurricanes for a project . When I got my dataset(sept1 -30, 2005 and oct 1 -30 2005) the file is mget_ds0830_fnl.tar ........I had to untar this data and it gave me a Y62277* ......when I ran this Y62277* it was data which would be unreadable........I assume that this is a grib file...but when I tried to convert grib to ctl(Y62277*.ctl) when I opened it, there was nothing in it.....I am trying to run these files in grads......so get a display of the track of the Hurricane....am I using the right path??? after I untar this data set what is my absolute path??? when I tried to type in a script to run it in grads ,
there was an error....</DIV> <DIV> Danny<BR><BR><B><I>Jennifer Adams <<A href="mailto:jma@COLA.IGES.ORG">jma@COLA.IGES.ORG</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Here's how the GDS does it: <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>function gopen(dataset)</DIV> <DIV>'sdfopen 'dataset</DIV> <DIV>if (!rc); say 'file opened with sdfopen'; return; endif</DIV> <DIV>'xdfopen 'dataset</DIV> <DIV>if (!rc); say 'file opened with xdfopen'; return; endif</DIV> <DIV>'open 'dataset</DIV> <DIV>if (!rc); say 'file opened with open'; return; endif</DIV> <DIV>say "error: couldn't open " dataset</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>ga-> gopen
file.ctl </DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>--</DIV> <DIV>Jennifer M. Adams</DIV> <DIV>IGES/COLA</DIV> <DIV>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</DIV> <DIV>Calverton, MD 20705</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:26 AM, <A href="mailto:bernd.becker@METOFFICE.GOV.UK">bernd.becker@METOFFICE.GOV.UK</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Hello,</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Can I sway "open" to return something to figure</DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">if the file.ctl in question exists or not?</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">iostat='open bob.ctl'</DIV> <DIV style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN:
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