All,<br><br> You are right, GrADS has a limitation in the length of the variable name. For grib,<br>the file name is truncated and I could never get the netcdf long names to work. Some<br>provisions needed to be added to g2ctl to handle the limitation in GrADS.<br>
<br> Wesley<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Donald Van Dyke <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:don.vandyke@noaa.gov" target="_blank">don.vandyke@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Ryan and Ricardo. It looks like the truncated "m" was my<br>
problem. I never thought to check it manually from the command line<br>
with the "q file" because other variables were working, and I've never<br>
run across an instance where the variable name in the control file was<br>
truncated like that. I'll know for next time though. At least the<br>
solution is very easy! It looks like GrADS has a hard limit of 15<br>
characters for a variable name then, but at least it will still plot.<br>
Thanks again for the assist!<br>
<br>
-Don<br>
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On 11/10/2012 11:29 AM, Ryan Maue wrote:<br>
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Don,<br>
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I used the previous version of g2ctl (0.0.8.7) + opengrads 2.0.1 to create the control and idx.<br>
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mxuphl5000_2000 0 0,7,199,2 ** 5000-2000 m above ground Hourly Maximum of Updraft Helicity over layer 2km to 5 km AGL [m2/s2]<br>
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The variable plotted fine for t > 1, as the variable isn't defined at the analysis time.<br>
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The control file also includes the "m" at the end of the variable but when the file is opened, it is truncated.<br>
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RYAN<br>
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On 11/10/2012 10:44 AM, Ricardo Hallak wrote:<br>
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Hi Don,<br>
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have you already tried to change the names (example: MXUPHL50002000m for<br>
MXUPHL5000_2000m)? After that you have to run gribmap again. It seems that<br>
grads doesn't accept underscores in var names.<br>
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Hope this helps,<br>
Ricardo<br>
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