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<div>Uwe, </div><div>There's no need to have a separate descriptor file for each member -- that's the whole purpose of the E dimension, to aggregate members into a single data set! An example of a GFS ensemble descriptor file with full EDEF is here:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gfsens.ctl">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gfsens.ctl</a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Specifically, what your descriptor needs, is this:</div><div>edef 1</div><div>20 33 00z05jun2008 3,20</div><div>endedef</div><div><br></div><div>The name "20" is a guess from your filename. If you want to template over E, change DSET to </div><div><div>dset ^gens_%e_2008060500z_P%f3.grib</div><div><br></div><div>Then get the ensemble grib codes from the grib2scan output (grep on "Ens") or from the gribmap -v output (look for "ens=") </div><div><br></div><div>The EDEF documentation is at <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html#EDEF">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/descriptorfile.html#EDEF</a></div><div><br></div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div></div><br><div><div>On Jun 6, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Uwe Gramann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Jennifer, </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">thanks for looking into this! </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have attached the output of the gribmap/grib2scan and the ctl file (which does not contain a edef declaration). I am not sure if I need an edef declaration, though, since I am treating each member as a separate model and create control files for each independently?</font></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">In case I will not get anywhere ... is there a server that has grib1 data of the gfs ensembles still? </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheer and thanks again, </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Uwe</font></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="jma@COLA.IGES.ORG" href="mailto:jma@COLA.IGES.ORG">Jennifer Adams</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT" href="mailto:GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT">GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT</a> </div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:00 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: Gribmap for GrADS 2.0.a2 with template option issue? (grib2 files)</div> <div><br></div><br> <div> <div>On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:13 PM, Uwe Gramann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hello everybody,</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have not much luck trying to open GFS ensemble grib2 files with the template option. After downloading all members and trying to apply the time-template option to a member like:</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3">g2ctl.pl -verf gens_20_2008060400z_P%f3.grib > uwe.ctl<br>gribmap -i uwe.ctl<br></font><br>gribmap reports no errors, the control file looks okay, but all variables are undef in Grads 2.0.a2! </font></div></span></blockquote>What does your descriptor file look like? I don't think g2ctl handles the ensemble declarations for EDEF (yet), you may have to add those manually.</div> <div>What is the output from gribmap -v ? </div> <div>What is the output from grib2scan -v ? </div> <div>Jennifer</div> <div><br></div> <div><br> <blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I have no issues opening the individual files in Grads or combining each forecast-member's files into one large file and then opening those. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jennifer just mentioned that a gribmap time-template bug has been fixed, but I still have one ....</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does anybody have any ideas ... suggestions ...</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheers and thanks to all</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Uwe</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">---------------------------------------<br>Uwe Gramann<br></font><font face="Arial" size="2">Mountain Weather Services<br>P.O.Box 4191, 4262 Railway Ave.<br>Smithers, BC, V0J 2N0<br>Cell: +250.877.3785<br>e-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:weather@uniserve.com">weather@uniserve.com</a><br>web:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.mountainweatherservices.com">www.mountainweatherservices.com</a><br>---------------------------------------</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> <blockquote dir="ltr" style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(228,228,228); -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial"><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="jma@COLA.IGES.ORG" href="mailto:jma@COLA.IGES.ORG">Jennifer Adams</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT" href="mailto:GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT">GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, May 02, 2008 9:40 AM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>NEW RELEASE of GrADS 2.0.a2</div> <div><br></div>Dear All, <div>I have posted a new version of GrADS: 2.0.a2. This version has several new features and important bug fixes. The GrADS downloads web page (<a href="http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html">http://iges.org/grads/downloads.html</a>) has also been updated with links to the source code and two binary releases (more binaries to follow as soon as possible). </div> <div><br></div> <div> Features:</div> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * ready for use with GDS-2.0 to access 5-dimensional data sets via OPeNDAP</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * support for thinned grib2 grids </span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * gribmap has -0 option for grib2</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * allows non-float data types for hdf coordinate axes </span></font></font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> </span></font></font><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> Bug Fixes:</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * memory leak when replacing an existing defined variable</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * multiple fixes for netcdf/hdf handling (templating, zrev, %nodim%, et al.)</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * contour interval and label handling for double precision numbers</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * changed 'query dims' output for ensembles</span></font></font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"> * fixed gribmap's handling of data sets templated over T but not E</div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> * fixed 'set annot' command and other minor bugs</span></font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><br></span></font></div> <div style="MIN-HEIGHT: 16px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT: 13px Courier"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"> <div>This release is a companion for GDS 2.0, which can now serve 5-D data sets. COLA is running a 2nd GDS for testing on port 9191 that is serving everything on the 9090 server plus GFS ensemble forecasts. Check 'em out at </div> <div> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://monsoondata.org:9191/dods/gfsens/">http://monsoondata.org:9191/dods/gfsens/</a> </div> <div>A public release of GDS 2.0 is forthcoming -- we are still testing. If you'd like to help, please try using the 9191 server. </div> <div><br></div> <div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><font style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face="Helvetica" size="3">Please post comments and questions and bug reports here (low-tech bug tracking is still in use at COLA). As always, I must be able to reproduce a problem on my own systems in order to fix it, so keep that in mind when reporting bugs. </font></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px">Jennifer</div> <div style="MARGIN: 0px"><br></div></div> <div></div></span></font></div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto"> <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><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></div><br></div></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br> <div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; border-spacing: 0px 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto"> <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><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></div><br></blockquote><span><gens_20_2008060500z_P000.ctl></span><span><grib2scan.with.gens_20_2008060500z_P012.grib></span><span><gribmap.of.gens_20_2008060500z_P000.ctl></span></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><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><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></body></html>