<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div><br></div><div>Dear All,</div><div>I am new to grib1 and grib2 data, I downloaded these data sets from ECMWF site and the data is .grib and grb2 formart. I would like to work this data for a case study of extreme rainfall event and flooding that took place in my country.</div><div>I downloaded this data becuase i wanted a high resolution data set and i was unable to get this thro7gh groogling. The data set contains, u and v components,precipitation totals, temperatures etc.</div><div>Could anyone help how i can read this data using grads or hown i can convert it to netcdf format which i am familiar with. I tried to do the following:</div><div>In windows >cdo -f nc copy grip file outputfile.nc</div><div> And i am getting an error </div><div>Please help</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:100%">Sent from Samsung tablet</div></div> <br>Davide Sacchetti <davide.sacchetti@arpal.gov.it> wrote:<br>You are making same mess with template ... I try to show 2 solutions:<br><br>you could cat all your files into a single one and avoiding template<br>or splitting each of them into 12 (months) files. Using this second<br>chance you could use template sal.%y4%m2.grb<br><br>hoping it helps ...<br><br>bye bye<br>Davide<br><br>On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 11:33 +0100, Andrew Friedman wrote:<br>> Hi GrADS users,<br>> <br>> This is my first time using GRIB data or templates in GrADS, so I<br>> apologize if this question is basic.<br>> <br>> <br>> I'm trying to open a set of annual salinity GRIB files (from Ishii et<br>> al.) using the GrADS template feature:<br>> http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/templates.html<br>> <br>> The files are sequential by year: sal.1945.grb sal.1946.grb<br>> sal.1947.grb .... sal.2012.grb ....<br>> <br>> However, when I open the control file (below) with the templating<br>> feature it only opens the first year (1945). I am able to open<br>> individual files by modifying the control file, however.<br>> <br>> Do you know what I am missing to get all of the files to load at once?<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> I downloaded the data from<br>> https://amaterasu.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/~ism/pub/ProjD/v6.13/sal/grib/<br>> <br>> The control file sal.ctl is as follows:<br>> -----------------------------------------------------------<br>> DSET ^sal.%y4.grb<br>> INDEX ^sal.idx<br>> dtype grib 255<br>> TITLE ANALYZED SALINITY AND ANALYSIS ERROR Ver. 6.13 ism@jamstec.go.jp<br>> OPTIONS template<br>> UNDEF 99999<br>> XDEF 360 LINEAR .5 1.00<br>> YDEF 180 LINEAR -89.5 1.00<br>> ZDEF 24 LEVELS 0 10 20 30 50 75 100 125 150 200 250 300 400 500 600<br>> 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 1500<br>> TDEF 816 LINEAR 15jan1945 1mo<br>> VARS 2<br>> s 24 88,160,0 salinity [psu]<br>> e 24 129,160,0 analysis error [psu]<br>> ENDVARS<br>> -----------------------------------------------------------<br>> <br>> Thanks,<br>> <br>> Andrew<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> gradsusr mailing list<br>> gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>> http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br><br>-- <br>Davide Sacchetti<br>Centro Funzionale Meteo Idrologico di Protezione Civile della Regione Liguria<br>ARPAL Unità Tecnica Complessa di livello Regionale<br>V.le Brigare Partigiane 2 16121 Genova (I)<br>tel: +39 010 6437535 fax: +39 010 6437520<br>mail: davide.sacchetti@arpal.gov.it web: www.meteoliguria.it<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br> </body>