<div dir="ltr"><div>Aaron,</div><div><br></div><div>I also download it from that source. When I use <a href="http://g2ctl.pl">g2ctl.pl</a> to create ctl files, if I remove CAPE and 4LFTX from the grib2 files, this is the grid description in the ctl file:</div>

<div><br></div><div><div><div>pdef 935 824 nps 456.142068646443 732.42845661651 249.000000 10</div><div>xdef 4000 linear 0.000000 0.0899962568142035</div><div>ydef 808 linear 17.342726 0.0900337967781908</div></div><div>
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</div><div>If I separate out CAPE and 4LFTX into their own grib2 file, this is what I get:</div><div><br></div><div><div>pdef 858 665 nps 361.120321747126 683.553026459468 249.000000 10</div><div>xdef 1945 linear 161.949691 0.0899750853909465</div>

<div>ydef 767 linear 19.241056 0.0900398276762402</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>You can see that the convective indices are on a different grid for some reason.</div><div><br></div><div>These are the commands in my perl script I use to work around it...</div>

<div>Datamart, as you know, has every variable and fcst hr in its own file. First take the files containing the 2 special vars and put them in their own grib2 file...</div><div>`cat \`ls $data_root/$modcap/$date$hh/*4LFTX*_P$fhrname.grib2 $data_root/$modcap/$date$hh/*CAPE*_P$fhrname.grib2\` </div>

<div>&gt; $data_root/$modcap/$date$hh/$mod.$date$hh.conv.f$fhrname`</div><div>Then take all the other files (except the 2 special vars) and put them into a grib2 file.</div><div><div>`cat \`ls $data_root/$modcap/$date$hh/*_P$fhrname.grib2 | grep -v &#39;.*4LFTX.*&#39; | grep -v &#39;.*CAPE.*&#39;\` &gt; $data_root/$</div>

<div>modcap/$date$hh/$mod.$date$hh.master.f$fhrname`</div></div><div>Then I create different template ctl/idx files for each set of files. Your plotting scripts will have to open the 2nd ctl file if you&#39;re plotting the special vars.</div>

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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Unable To Open Concatanated Regional GEM</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">        GRIB2s  With    GrADS</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi Greg,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank you very much for chiming in! I&#39;ve been using the usual </span><a href="http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/model_gem_regional/10km/grib2/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://dd.weatheroffice.gc.ca/model_gem_regional/10km/grib2/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> datasource to pull the GRIB2s and then run them through g2ctl/gribmap.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Truly stumped right now...</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Onward and Upward,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Aaron D. Perry</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Atmospheric Sciences</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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