<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ted, <div>Version 1.9 does not read grib2 files. You need version 2.0. I don't know anything about g2gdf.pl, but you may find some useful information in the documentation on handling GRIB in GrADS <a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/grib.html">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/grib.html</a></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 8, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Ted Pollock wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br><br>I've been trying to open the 1 degree grib2 gfs files using grads <br>v1.9.0-rc1 on an i686 fedora machine. The files have the form <br>gfs.t??z.pgrbf??.grib2.<br><br>g2gdf.pl is not generating the appropriate .inv files for forecast <br>hours greater than 0.<br><br>After playing with the files, I discovered that the dates in the .inv <br>file correspond to the initial time of the model run, not the forecast <br>time. By changing the dates in the .inv file to the forecast time, I <br>can display the variables using the .inv/.gdf files generated. Without <br>this change, all variables return undefined values.<br><br>I am not that good with perl or grib2 files yet, so it would be great <br>if someone could suggest some possible modifications to the g2gdf.pl <br>script.<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Ted<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <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 style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><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></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>