<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Jennifer,<br><br>That works for me! Thank you so much for the help as I have been banging my head over this for days.<br><br>I added the additional zdef levels (to make a total of 10) and then added the additional "3" to the grib codes and it works great now.<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Matt<br><div><span><br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Monday, December 16, 2013 7:16 AM, Jennifer Adams <jma@cola.iges.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div
id="yiv6065121886"><div><div>Hi, Matt -- </div><div>A few changes need to be made to your descriptor file. There are more than 6 pressure levels, so change your ZDEF statement to:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">zdef 10 levels 80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000</span></font></div></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;"><br clear="none"></span></font></div><div>Not all variables are defined at all these levels, but this set of levels is the superset to catch all the records in the file. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Also, you need to add one more grib code to the units field in your variable declarations:</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div><font
class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">CBHEclm 0,10,0 0,6,25 ** entire atmosphere Horizontal Extent of Cumulonimbus (CB) [%]9,</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">ICAHTcbb 0,11,0 0,3,3 ** cumulonimbus base ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height [m]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">ICAHTcbt 0,12,0 0,3,3 ** cumulonimbus top ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height [m]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span"
style="font-size:13px;">CATaveprs 10,100 0,19,22,0,3 ** (400 350 300 250 200 150) Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) [%]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">CATmaxprs 10,100 0,19,22,2,3 ** (400 350 300 250 200 150) Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) [%]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">CTPaveprs 10,100 0,19,21,0,3 ** (700 600 500 400 300) In-Cloud Turbulence [%]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">CTPmaxprs 10,100 0,19,21,2,3 ** (700 600 500 400 300) In-Cloud Turbulence [%]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span
class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">ICIPaveprs 10,100 0,19,20,0,3 ** (800 700 600 500 400 300) Icing [%]</span></font></div><div><font class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv6065121886Apple-style-span" style="font-size:13px;">ICIPmaxprs 10,100 0,19,20,2,3 ** (800 700 600 500 400 300) Icing [%]</span></font></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>These changes resulted in a "MATCH" for all records in your file, using gribmap (in verbose mode) in GrADS 2.0.2. </div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><div><div class="yiv6065121886yqt5887437387" id="yiv6065121886yqt39105"><div>On Dec 14, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Matthew Grzych wrote:</div><br class="yiv6065121886Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div
style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;"><div>I am having no luck getting WAFS GRIB2 files to plot in GrADS and get the "Cannot contour grid - all undefined values" error after many hours of trying seemingly everything. I am downloading the files from:<br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"
href="http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2013121212/WAFS_blended_2013121212f06.grib2">http://www.ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod/gfs.2013121212/WAFS_blended_2013121212f06.grib2</a></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Then I generate the control files using g2ctl.pl and index files using gribmap. Here's an example ctl file:</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">_______________________________________________________________________________________<br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">dset
/home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2<br clear="none">index /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2.idx<br clear="none">undef -0.5<br clear="none">title /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2<br clear="none">* produced by g2ctl v0.0.8.4<br clear="none">* command line options: /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2<br clear="none">* griddef=1:0:(288 x 145):grid_template=0:winds(N/S): lat-lon grid:(288 x 145) units 1e-06 input WE:NS output WE:SN res 48 lat 90.000000 to -90.000000 by 1.250000 lon 0.000000 to 358.750000 by 1.250000 #points=41760:winds(N/S)<br clear="none">dtype grib2<br clear="none">ydef 145 linear -90.000000 1.25<br clear="none">xdef 288 linear 0.000000 1.250000<br clear="none">tdef 1 linear 18Z14dec2013 6hr<br clear="none">* PROFILE hPa<br clear="none">zdef 6 levels 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000<br clear="none">options pascals<br clear="none">vars 9<br
clear="none">CATaveprs 6,100 0,19,22,0 ** (400 350 300 250 200 150) Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) [%]<br clear="none">CATmaxprs 6,100 0,19,22,2 ** (400 350 300 250 200 150) Clear Air
Turbulence (CAT) [%]<br clear="none">CBHEclm 0,10,0 0,6,25 ** entire atmosphere Horizontal Extent of Cumulonimbus (CB) [%]<br clear="none">CTPaveprs 6,100 0,19,21,0 ** (700 600 500 400 300) In-Cloud Turbulence [%]<br clear="none">CTPmaxprs 6,100 0,19,21,2 ** (700 600 500 400 300) In-Cloud Turbulence [%]<br clear="none">ICAHTcbb 0,11,0 0,3,3 ** cumulonimbus base ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height [m]<br clear="none">ICAHTcbt 0,12,0 0,3,3 ** cumulonimbus top ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height [m]<br clear="none">ICIPaveprs 6,100 0,19,20,0 ** (800 700 600 500 400 300) Icing [%]<br clear="none">ICIPmaxprs 6,100 0,19,20,2 ** (800 700 600 500 400 300) Icing [%]<br clear="none">ENDVARS</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial,
Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">____________________________________________________________________________________</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Here's the output from my .gs file:</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">___________________________________________________________________________________<br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0,
0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Running in Batch mode<br clear="none">open WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2.ctl<br clear="none">Scanning description file: WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2.ctl<br clear="none">Data file /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_blended_2013121412f06.grib2 is open as file 1<br clear="none">LON set to 0 360<br clear="none">LAT set to -90 90<br clear="none">LEV set to 400 400<br clear="none">Time values set: 2013:12:14:18 2013:12:14:18<br clear="none">E set to 1 1<br clear="none">set LON 0 358.75<br clear="none">LON set to 0 358.75<br clear="none">set gxout shaded<br clear="none">d CATmaxprs<br clear="none">Cannot contour grid - all undefined values<br clear="none">q dims<br clear="none">Default file number is: 1<br clear="none">X is varying Lon = 0 to 358.75 X = 1 to 288<br
clear="none">Y is varying Lat = -90 to 90 Y = 1 to 145<br clear="none">Z is fixed Lev = 400 Z = 1<br clear="none">T is fixed Time = 18Z14DEC2013 T = 1<br clear="none">E is fixed Ens = 1 E = 1<br clear="none">quit<br clear="none">EXEC error: error in turb_dev.gs. EXEC
stopped.<br clear="none">No hardcopy metafile open<br clear="none">GX package terminated<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">__________________________________________________________________________________</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Any ideas?</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Thanks,</div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;">Matt<br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:13.3333px;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br clear="none">gradsusr mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank"
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