<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Romero,<br>Have you tried just degribbing one field and see if it plots correctly? Then try another and cat them together (remember the order for ctl file). I use wgrib option for -nh (no header). <br><br>Lee<br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Wesley Ebisuzaki" <Wesley.Ebisuzaki@NOAA.GOV><br>To: GRADSUSR@LIST.CINECA.IT<br>Sent: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 12:20:34 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey<br>Subject: Re: convert grib2 to binary format with wgrib2<br><br>Hi,<br><br>In a grib file, the fields can be in any order. With a binary file,<br>GrADS expects<br>the fields to be in a specific order. In grib, a missing field is just<br>not there. In<br>a binary file, a missing field is an array of missing values.<br>It is possible rearrange the order of the grib records and to add the<br>missing fields,<br>but why?<br><br>Wesley Ebisuzaki<br><br>P.Romero wrote:<br>><br>> I have questions about converting my grib2 data to binary:<br>><br>> I tried running “wgrib2 mygrib2file.grb2 –bin mydata.bin”, which<br>> created a very large binary file.<br>><br>> I then tried to use my existing .ctl file (that I had created with<br>> g2ctl.pl), and modify it to point to the new binary file.<br>><br>> This seemed to work, grads didn’t complain when I tried to load the<br>> control file.<br>><br>> However, when I tried to plot something, the values were completely off.<br>><br>><br>> Whats the correct way to export a grib2 file to binary using wgrib2 &<br>> create a proper .ctl file for this binary file?<br>><br>> Please help,<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>><br>> P.Romero<br>><br></div></body></html>