<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">WED 05OCT11: 2010PDT<div><br></div><div>I'm still having difficulty trying to set up a correct CTL file for the Short Range Ensemble Model (SREF) since g2ctl.pl does not correctly display the variables correctly in the file it creates. </div><div><br></div><div>A WGRIB2 inventory of the file I am looking at is found here: </div><div><br></div><div>MEAN: <a href="http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/sref/prod/sref.20111005/15/ensprod/sref.t15z.pgrb212.mean.grib2.idx">http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/sref/prod/sref.20111005/15/ensprod/sref.t15z.pgrb212.mean.grib2.idx</a></div><div>SPREAD: <a href="http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/sref/prod/sref.20111005/15/ensprod/sref.t15z.pgrb212.spread.grib2.idx">http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/sref/prod/sref.20111005/15/ensprod/sref.t15z.pgrb212.spread.grib2.idx</a></div><div>PROB: <a href="http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/sref/prod/sref.20111005/15/ensprod/sref.t15z.pgrb212.prob.grib2.idx">http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/sref/prod/sref.20111005/15/ensprod/sref.t15z.pgrb212.prob.grib2.idx</a></div><div><br></div><div>I am not sure how to write out the APCP variables - for example: (MEAN)</div><div><br></div><div>forecast hour 6: </div><div><br></div><div><pre>179:1695832:d=2011100515:APCP:surface:3-6 hour acc fcst:wt ens-mean
180:1700422:d=2011100515:APCP:surface:0-6 hour acc fcst:wt ens-mean</pre><div><br></div></div><div>at the end of the file : </div><div><br></div><div><pre>2053:18119750:d=2011100515:APCP:surface:84-87 hour acc fcst:wt ens-mean
2054:18125217:d=2011100515:APCP:surface:81-87 hour acc fcst:wt ens-mean
2055:18131995:d=2011100515:APCP:surface:75-87 hour acc fcst:wt ens-mean
2056:18140088:d=2011100515:APCP:surface:63-87 hour acc fcst:wt ens-mean</pre><div>I need to plot the precip mean/spread for precip every 6 hours, 12 hours and 24 hours, but have been at this for a week now, and still nowhere near a satisfactory solution. Likewise with the probability of rainfall exceeding 0.25" etc.... I was quite competent decoding grib1 and setting up CTL files based on the KPDS values, however, the SREF inventory has me stumped. </div></div><div><br></div><div>If I know how do get this done, I should be able to create the CTL file for the probability files which is where I had the initial problem last week. </div><div><br></div><div>Any help with an short example would greatly help me. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance. </div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Sep 27, 2011, at 09/27/11 - 6:28 AM, Jennifer Adams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Never mind, I found a sample and will look into whether GrADS can handle this PDT. --Jennifer<div><br><div><div>On Sep 27, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Jennifer Adams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What is the URL or FTP address where I can get a sample of this SREF file? --Jennifer<div> <br><div><div>On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Kevin M Levey wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>MON 26SEP11: 1400PDT<br><br>Hi<br><br>I'm busy processing SREF GRIB2 model data, specifically: AWIPS grid Regional - CONUS - Double Resolution (Lambert Conformal - 40km) Prob Products (NCEP ....ensprod/sref.tccz.pgrb212.prob.grib2).<br><br>I've had no problems using processing the SPREAD and MEAN files using gtcl.pl (ver:0.0.8.2) and wgrib2 (ver: v0.1.9.2c 3/2011 ), however, am running into issues when processing the probability files. <br><br>Firstly, g2ctl.pl throws this: <br><br>Warning: g2lib/g2clib jpeg deocde may differ from WMO standard, use use -g2clib 0 for WMO standard<br><br>and then running gribmap I get this: <br><br>Product Definition Template 9 not handled <br><br>As I understand it, wgrib2 doesn't know what to do as the table for SREF is not defined. The CTL file incorrectly shows only a few variables and none of the probability variables as listed on the NCEP site: <br><br><a href="http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/sref/sref.t03z.pgrb212.prob.grib2.shtml">http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/sref/sref.t03z.pgrb212.prob.grib2.shtml</a> <br><br>I'm somewhat stumped here as to how to correctly process these type files and display the desired variables in GRADS. <br><br>Any help would be welcome.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Kevin M Levey, MSc in Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences (University of Cape Town)<br>Vice President of Operations<br>CustomWeather, Inc.<br>San Francisco, California, USA<br><br>"Taking the World by Storm!"<br><br><a href="http://www.customweather.com/">http://www.customweather.com</a><br><a href="http://www.myforecast.com/">http://www.myforecast.com</a><br><a href="http://www.1stweather.com">http://www.1stweather.com</a><br><br>cell: 415-794-0411<br>work: 415-777-3566<br>email: klevey@customweather.com<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. 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