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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thank you Wesley. That solved my problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br>Mike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Wesley Ebisuzaki<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] GRIB2 and GrADS<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Mike,<br><br> From your ctl file,<br><br>HGT 0,100,400,0,0 0,3,5 ** 4 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br><br>The above line suggests that wgrib2 thinks the field is for a layer "4 mb-reserved"<br>rather than the level "4 mb". If you understand grib2, the second Code Table 4.5 should <br>be set to 255 (missing) rather than 0 (reserved). Fix the grib files and the problem should<br>go away.<br><br> Wesley<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Frost, Mr. Michael <<a href="mailto:Michael.Frost@nrlmry.navy.mil">Michael.Frost@nrlmry.navy.mil</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi:<br><br>I have a bunch of individual GRIB2 files that I cat together to make one large one. The files in question are geopotential height and different pressure levels. All files are for the same bastime/tau and are for the same domain.<br><br>When I use the <a href="http://grb2ctl.pl" target="_blank">grb2ctl.pl</a> to create the control file, it lists out each of the different levels as basically different parameters. That is, it says I have many one level parameters, instead of 1 parameter with many levels.<br><br>Any idea on where I screwed up?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Mike Frost<br><br>===<br>%cat geopht_pre_00*grib2 > test.grib2<br>%<a href="http://grb2ctl.pl" target="_blank">grb2ctl.pl</a> test.grib2 > test.ctl<br>===<br><br>===<br>%more test.ctl<br><br>dset ^test.grib2<br>index ^test.grib2.idx<br>undef 9.999E+20<br>title test.grib2<br>* produced by g2ctl v0.0.8.4<br>* command line options: test.grib2<br>* griddef=1:0:(61 x 61):grid_template=30:winds(N/S): Lambert Conformal: (61 x 61) input WE:SN output WE:SN res 48 Lat1 34.867636 Lon1 229.943856 LoV 235.975998 LatD 60.000000 Latin1 60.000000 Latin2 30.000000 LatSP 0.000000 LonSP 235.975998 North Pol dtype grib2 pdef 61 61 lcc 34.867636 -130.056144 1 1 60.000000 30.000000 -124.024002 18000.000000 18000.000000 xdef 72 linear -131.123443 0.199441029068876 ydef 63 linear 34.867636 0.163636363636364 tdef 1 linear 12Z06jan2012 1mo zdef 1 linear 1 1 vars 30<br>HGT 0,100,400,0,0 0,3,5 ** 4 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,500,0,0 0,3,5 ** 5 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,700,0,0 0,3,5 ** 7 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,1000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 10 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,2000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 20 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,3000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 30 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,5000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 50 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,7000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 70 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,10000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 100 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,15000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 150 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,20000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 200 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,25000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 250 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,30000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 300 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,35000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 350 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,40000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 400 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,45000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 450 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,50000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 500 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,55000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 550 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,60000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 600 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,65000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 650 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,70000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 700 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,75000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 750 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,80000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 800 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,85000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 850 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,90000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 900 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,92500,0,0 0,3,5 ** 925 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,95000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 950 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,97500,0,0 0,3,5 ** 975 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,100000,0,0 0,3,5 ** 1000 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>HGT 0,100,101300,0,0 0,3,5 ** 1013 mb - reserved Geopotential Height [gpm]<br>ENDVARS<br>===<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>