<div dir="ltr"><div>I don't know the answer to your question, but GrADS is capable of opening grib2 data. Get the g2ctl perl file and use gribmap on the control file you generate.<br><br></div>Jeff Duda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Jason Snyder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu" target="_blank">jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>I generated a netcdf file through wgrib2 xxx.grib2 -nc_grads -append -netcdf <a href="http://xxx.nc" target="_blank">xxx.nc</a><br><br></div>The output of the grib2 file is:<br><br>1:0:d=2015120700:WTMP:surface:anl:<br>2:5211:d=2015120700:WTMP:surface:12 hour fcst:<br>3:10513:d=2015120700:WTMP:surface:24 hour fcst:<br>4:15710:d=2015120700:WTMP:surface:36 hour fcst:<br>5:21031:d=2015120700:WTMP:surface:48 hour fcst:<br><br></div>which means there are multiple time steps. When I tried to open the netcdf file in GrADS I get the following error message:<br><br>Scanning self-describing file: OCEAN_2015120700.nc<br>gadsdf: Error parsing time units in SDF file.<br><br><br></div>The ncdump of the output file is attached. Given this information how can I convert a grib2 file to netcdf so that I can view the netcdf file in GrADS?<br><br></div>Thank you for your time.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Jason<br><div><div><br><br><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div><br><div><div></div></div>
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