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class=725220014-22072008>Jennifer</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=725220014-22072008>Thanks for your response. Indeed, I checked the
$PATH, and tried using a complete path to gribmap, but continued to get the same
error. Has anyone used gribmap from the grads v2.a.02 "package"
successfully with GFS pgrbf.grib2 files?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=725220014-22072008>Isla</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Leaving tdef aside, the next step is to use gribmap
(the one which comes</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">with grads-2.0.a2) , but this failed:</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">g2ctl -0
/data/weather/gfs/20080714/00/gfs.t00z.pgrbf > gfs.ctl</DIV>
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<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Open Error: Data file type invalid</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">--> The invalid description file record
is:</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">--> dtype grib2</DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">The data file was not opened.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV>The 'dtype grib2' option should work with gribmap (the one that comes
with 2.0.a2). Please check your $PATH or use a complete path to gribmap to
make sure you're using the right one. </DIV>
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<DIV>Jennifer</DIV><BR>
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