<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Matt, <div>You have ZDEF 10, but "6,100" in the levels field of your variable declaration. GrADS assumes that the 6 levels for those variables are the first six in the ZDEF list, which is why you're not getting any plots for 300mb and above. Change your "6,100" to "10,100" and then you will see the grids for the variables that are defined at higher levels.</div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 22, 2013, at 1:16 PM, Matthew Grzych wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><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">Jennifer,<br><br>This fix worked great for me when testing lev 400, but I have scripted to make images for all levels and only levels 350 and 400 work. For levels 300, 250, and 200 I am still getting this error:<br><br>"Data Request Warning: Request is completely outside file limits<br> Entire grid contents are set to missing data<br> Grid limits of file: X = 1 288 Y = 1 145 Z = 1 10 T = 1 1 E = 1 1<br> Grid limits of request: X = 1 288 Y = 1 145 Z = 9 9 T = 1 1 E = 1 1<br> Warning issued for variable = catmaxprs<br>Cannot contour grid - all undefined values"<br><br>it says im out of the range, but it clearly shows I am not. Any ideas here?<br><br>My control file:<br>dset /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_f18.grib2<br>index /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_f18.grib2.idx<br>undef 9.999E+20<br>title /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_f18.grib2<br>* produced by g2ctl v0.0.8.4<br>* command line options: -verf /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_f18.grib2<br>* 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<br> by 1.250000 lon 0.000000 to 358.750000 by 1.250000 #points=41760:winds(N/S)<br><br>dtype grib2<br>ydef 145 linear -90.000000 1.25<br>xdef 288 linear 0.000000 1.250000<br>tdef 1 linear 06Z22dec2013 1mo<br>* PROFILE hPa<br>zdef 10 levels 80000 70000 60000 50000 40000 35000 30000 25000 20000 15000<br>options pascals<br>vars 9<br>CATaveprs 6,100 0,19,22,0,3 ** (400 350 300 250 200 150) Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) [%]<br>CATmaxprs 6,100 0,19,22,2,3 ** (400 350 300 250 200 150) Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) [%]<br>CBHEclm 0,10,0 0,6,25 ** entire atmosphere Horizontal Extent of Cumulonimbus (CB) [%]<br>CTPaveprs 6,100 0,19,21,0,3 ** (700 600 500 400 300) In-Cloud Turbulence [%]<br>CTPmaxprs 6,100 0,19,21,2,3 ** (700 600 500 400 300) In-Cloud Turbulence [%]<br>ICAHTcbb 0,11,0 0,3,3 ** cumulonimbus base ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height [m]<br>ICAHTcbt 0,12,0 0,3,3 ** cumulonimbus top ICAO Standard Atmosphere Reference Height [m]<br>ICIPaveprs 6,100 0,19,20,0,3 ** (800 700 600 500 400 300) Icing [%]<br>ICIPmaxprs 6,100 0,19,20,2,3 ** (800 700 600 500 400 300) Icing [%]<br>ENDVARS<br><br><br>My script:<br>open /home/matt/gfs_wafs/12z/WAFS_f18.grib2.ctl<br><br>*set mpdraw off<br>*set grid off<br>set lon 0 358.75<br>set lev 200<br><br>set cmin 5<br>set cmax 50<br>set rgb 21 255 51 255<br>set rgb 22 255 0 25<br>set rgb 23 204 0 204<br>set rgb 24 153 0 153<br>set rgb 25 102 0 102<br>set rgb 26 204 0 102<br>set clevs 4 8 12 16 20 24<br>set ccols 0 21 23 24 25 26 22<br>set gxout shade2b<br>d CATmaxprs<br>printim /home/matt/gfs_wafs/images/turb_f18_200.png x3200 y2400<br>quit<br><br><br>Thanks!<br>Matt<br><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 10:59 AM, Matthew Grzych <<a href="mailto:mattgrzych@yahoo.com">mattgrzych@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5744104153"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt;">Jennifer,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">That works for me! Thank you so much for the help as I have been banging my head over this for days.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">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 clear="none"><br clear="none">Thanks again,<br clear="none">Matt<br clear="none"><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div class="yiv5744104153yqt3875200588" id="yiv5744104153yqt51763"><div class="yiv5744104153yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <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 <<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <div class="yiv5744104153y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5744104153"><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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-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="yiv5744104153yqt5887437387" id="yiv5744104153yqt39105"><div>On Dec 14, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Matthew Grzych wrote:</div><br class="yiv5744104153Apple-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" href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br clear="none"><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br clear="none"></blockquote></div></div><br clear="none"><div> <div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-size:12px;"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="yiv5744104153Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;orphans:2;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;"></span></span><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams<br clear="none">Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<br clear="none">111 Research Hall, Mail Stop 2B3<br clear="none">George Mason University<br clear="none">4400 University Drive<br clear="none">Fairfax, VA 22030 <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div><br class="yiv5744104153khtml-block-placeholder" clear="none"></div><br class="yiv5744104153Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"></div><br class="yiv5744104153Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"> </div> <br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. 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