Jennifer,<div><br></div><div>Yes, the data is on a lambert projection that crosses the equator. If pdef lcc isn't the appropriate option, what else can I try? I've looked through the pdef documentation but I don't see anything that stands out as the obvious solution.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For reference, here is how my pdef line is currently defined in my control file:</div><div><br></div><div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace">pdef 269 169 rotllr -10.242000 -88.026000 1 1 25.118000 25.118000 -46.680000 40000 40000</font></b></div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Here's some metadata about the grib file itself:</div><div><br></div><div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> File Name : 201207240600_arw_wrfout_d01.grb</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> File Format : GRIB 1</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Model ID : 116</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Center ID : 7</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Sub Center ID : 0</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Grid Projection : Lambert Conformal</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Grid Dimensions NX x NY : 269 x 169</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Grid Spacing DX, DY : 40.000km, 40.000km</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Standard Latitude : 25.118</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Standard Longitude : -46.680</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Latitude, Longitude (1,1): -10.242, -88.026</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> True Lat1, Lat2 : 25.118, 25.118</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Pole : North Pole</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Scan : WE:SN</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> Corner Lat-Lon points of the domain:</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> 43.14, -111.83 43.15, 18.45</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> * *</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br>
</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> * 24.75, -47.09</font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></b></div><div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> * *</font></b></div>
<div><b><font face="courier new, monospace"> -10.24, -88.03 -10.24, -5.35</font></b></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Any advice on how to proceed?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>
Dan</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">If the native grid is on a lambert projection that crosses the equator? If so, then the pdef lcc won't work properly. --Jennifer<div><br><div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Aug 10, 2012, at 6:14 PM, Dan Leins wrote:</div>
<br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">List,<div><br></div><div>I have a grib1 file from a WRF model which is displaying improperly in GrADS. The domain is fairly large and crosses the equator as well as the prime meridian. Here is the output from q dims:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>X is varying Lon = -88.026 to 11.0066 X = 1 to 269</div><div>Y is varying Lat = -10.242 to 50.8489 Y = 1 to 169</div><div>Z is fixed Lev = 1013 Z = 1</div><div>T is fixed Time = 06Z24JUL2012 T = 1</div>
<div>E is fixed Ens = 1 E = 1</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>I'm attaching an image of the 'landsfc' field from the grib file, it's obvious that the field is displaced too far north.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any idea what could be going on here? I've tried setting different map projections in GrADS but that doesn't resolve the problem. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for any help!</div><div>Dan</div>
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