<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">You need to create a descriptor file for your grib2 data. Please read the documentation on how to do this at <div><a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/grib.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/grib.html</a></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 15, 2014, at 9:13 PM, Ethan Sacoransky wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello All,<br>Trying to open a simple GFS file so that I can get a background source to begin plotting data with. Made sure to place the .grb2 file in the correct directory after downloading the file off the NOMADS site. When I type in the 'open gfs_4_20140112_1200_009.grb2' command I get the can't open description file error. Any help would be much appreciated.<br>Ethan<br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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