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Hello,<br>
I'm trying to use grads to open a bufr file (see attach file) but I
don't get any display, I just get an empty map with no wind vectors.
Can you please help me in getting a correct display<br>
Thank you,<br>
<br>
My descriptor file is this:<br>
dset ^SAFNWC_MSG2_ASII_200812121045_Region_ZAMG_.IRAMV.buf<br>
title "Test Bufr data"<br>
undef 1e+20<br>
DTYPE bufr<br>
XVAR 6,2<br>
YVAR 5,2<br>
TVAR yr 4,1 mo 4,2 dy 4,3 hr 4,4 mn 4,5 sc 4,6<br>
TDEF 1 LINEAR 10:45Z12dec2008 1hr<br>
STID 31,2<br>
vars 4<br>
slat 0 5,2 Station latitude<br>
slon 0 6,2 Station longitude<br>
u 0 11,3 u component<br>
v 0 11,4 v component<br>
endvars<br>
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<b>GrADS session </b><br>
Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.0.a8<br>
Copyright (c) 1988-2010 by Brian Doty and the<br>
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)<br>
GrADS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY<br>
See file COPYRIGHT for more information<br>
Config: v2.0.a8 little-endian readline printim grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds
hdf5 opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile<br>
Issue 'q config' command for more information.<br>
Landscape mode? ('n' for portrait):<br>
GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5<br>
ga-> open modbufTest.ctl<br>
Scanning description file: modbufTest.ctl<br>
Warning: OPTIONS keyword "template" is used, but the<br>
DSET entry contains no substitution templates.<br>
Data file SAFNWC_MSG2_ASII_200812121045_Region_ZAMG_.IRAMV.buf is open
as file 1<br>
LON set to 0 360<br>
LAT set to -90 90<br>
LEV set to 500 500<br>
Time values set: 2008:12:12:10 2008:12:12:10<br>
E set to 1 1<br>
ga-> set gxout vector<br>
ga-> d u;v<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Tatiana D. Gonzalez
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Meteorological Development Laboratory
1325 East-West Highway
SSMC2, Room 10330
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3283
Ph.(301)713-0056 x 118
Fax. (301)713-9316
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