Have you tried running wgrib or wgrib2 on you grib file?<br><br>Garut<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Arlindo da Silva <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<span><pre>Hi</pre><pre>I was trying to create the .ctl file for .grb files using GRADS. I came with the error message as follows:</pre><pre>"Big problem</pre><pre>either .grb file is missing or not a grib file</pre>
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</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Any chance your file is a GRIB-2 file? The urilities wgrib and <a href="http://grib2ctl.pl" target="_blank">grib2ctl.pl</a> assume GRIB-1. You will need wgrib2 and <a href="http://g2ctl.pl" target="_blank">g2ctl.pl</a> for GRIB-2 files. Google for it.</div>
<div><br></div><div> Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div><font color="#888888">-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>
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