<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Geeta,</div><div>Which format is your data? From my understanding of grads, you need to convert the data into grads format eg. Cdo or grib2ctl. Once you have the .ctl file then it can easily be read by grads.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Sent from Samsung tablet</div></div> <br>Geeta Geeta <geeta124@hotmail.com> wrote:<br><style><!--
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<div dir="ltr">Hi, <br>I have grib2 files which I want to plot using Grads. <br> <br> <br>bash-3.2# ~/g2ctl -0 fnl_20130522_00_00 >temp.ctl<br>bash-3.2# gribmap -0 -i temp.ctl<br>Open Error: Data file type invalid<br> --> The invalid description file record is:<br> --> dtype grib2<br> <br> The data file was not opened.<br>File name is: temp.ctl<br>bash-3.2#<br><br>I donot know whats the problem ???<br>Can somebody suggest????<br><br>geeta<br> </div> </body>