Dear Wesley:<br><br>Could you kindly say to me where I can find the gribmap v2? <br>Now, I am using ubuntu 10.1 and I have downdoad the GRADS version 2.0.a7.1-3 from the software center.<br><br>Thanks for your help.<br><br>
kind regards:<br>Javier Peña<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/20 Wesley Ebisuzaki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Wesley.Ebisuzaki@noaa.gov">Wesley.Ebisuzaki@noaa.gov</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Javier,<br>
<br>
The error message<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> Open Error: Data file type invalid<br>
> --> The invalid description file record is:<br>
> --> dtype grb2<br>
</div>says that you either are using gribmap v1 or gribmap v2 that was compiled<br>
without grib2 support. Most likely the former.<br>
<br>
Wesley Ebisuzaki<br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
<br>
Javier Peña wrote:<br>
> Dear users:<br>
><br>
> I'm trying to open a grib2 file with Grads but I've found problems in<br>
> my way.<br>
><br>
> I have been able to create a descriptor file with the function<br>
</div>> <a href="http://g2ctl.pl" target="_blank">g2ctl.pl</a> <<a href="http://g2ctl.pl" target="_blank">http://g2ctl.pl</a>> using the following sentence:<br>
><br>
> perl <a href="http://g2ctl.pl" target="_blank">g2ctl.pl</a> <<a href="http://g2ctl.pl" target="_blank">http://g2ctl.pl</a>> -0 pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112.grb2 ><br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112_grib2.ctl<br>
><br>
> but, when I've tried to create the index file with the function<br>
> gribmap, I have obtained the following error message:<br>
><br>
> gribmap -i pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112_grib2.ctl<br>
> Open Error: Data file type invalid<br>
> --> The invalid description file record is:<br>
> --> dtype grb2<br>
> The data file was not opened.<br>
><br>
> This is part of the descriptor file obtained:<br>
><br>
> dset ^pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112.grb2<br>
> index ^pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112.grb2.idx<br>
> undef 9.999E+20<br>
> title pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112.grb2<br>
> * produced by g2ctl v0.0.8.2<br>
> * command line options: -0 pgbhnl.gdas.2006020112.grb2<br>
> * griddef=1:0:(720 x 361):grid_template=0:winds(N/S): lat-lon<br>
> grid:(720 x 361) units 1e-06 input WE:NS output WE:SN res 48 lat<br>
> 90.000000 to -90.000000 by 0.500000 lon 0.000000 to 359.500000 by<br>
> 0.500000 #points=259920:winds(N/S)<br>
><br>
> dtype grib2<br>
> ydef 361 linear -90.000000 0.5<br>
> xdef 720 linear 0.000000 0.500000<br>
> tdef 1 linear 12Z01feb2006 1mo<br>
> * PROFILE hPa<br>
> zdef 37 levels 100000 97500 95000 92500 90000 87500 85000 82500 80000<br>
> 77500 75000 70000 65000 60000 55000 50000 45000 40000 35000 30000<br>
> 25000 22500 20000 17500 15000 12500 10000 7000 5000 3000 2000 1000 700<br>
> 500 300 200 100<br>
> options pascals<br>
> vars 95<br>
> no4LFTXsfc 0,1,0 0,7,193 ** surface Best (4 layer) Lifted Index [K]<br>
> no5WAVA500mb 0,100,50000 0,3,197 ** 500 mb 5-Wave Geopotential<br>
> Height Anomaly [gpm]<br>
> no5WAVH500mb 0,100,50000 0,3,193 ** 500 mb 5-Wave Geopotential<br>
> Height [gpm]<br>
><br>
> Does someone know what is the problem? What is wrong in my procedure?<br>
> and how can I create the index file?<br>
><br>
> Thank you very much in advance for your help.<br>
><br>
> Sincerely:<br>
> Javier Peña<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Javier Peña Álvarez<br>
> Energías Renovables<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Javier Peña Álvarez<br>Energías Renovables<br><a href="mailto:javier.p@ereda.com">javier.p@ereda.com</a><br>EREDA<br><br>Tel: +34 91 5014755<br>Fax: +34 91 5014756<br>Pº. Marqués de Monistrol 7<br>
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