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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Have you downloaded Perl onto your PC? It does not come as
standard on Windows machines. ActivePerl is a good package (</span><a
href="http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads">http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads</a><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Running the .pl script does not depend on GrADS. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>You need to use Perl.exe to run grib2ctl.pl (a Perl script)
which will create a ctl file. You then need to use gribmap.exe (which should
come with your GrADS installation package) to create a map from the ctl to the
grib2 files. The file produced by gribmap will have an .idx extension.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Once you have the ctl and idx files you can then open the ctl
file in GrADS to read the data in the grib2 files.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Have a look at this as well:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/grib2ctl.html">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/grib2ctl.html</a><span
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org
[mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>kalyan chakravarthy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 09 March 2012 14:05<br>
<b>To:</b> gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] problem in Generating CTL file to Read GRB2 file in
Grads<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Dear All<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Am new to work with GRB2 files in grads.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Have extracted a CFSR file for vwnd component and the
format of the file is in .grb2<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>To read this file have downloaded <a
href="http://grib2ctl.pl">grib2ctl.pl</a> file from the website and when tried
to open to <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>in grads using command <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>><a href="http://GRIB2CTL.PL">GRIB2CTL.PL</a> -VERF
FILENAME.GRB2>FILENAME.CTL<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> after giving this command this is showing an error in
the script file<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Am using Grads 2.0.a7.oga.3 in windows operating system<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Can anyboby help me in sorting out this problem<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>kalyan<o:p></o:p></p>
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