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    Dear Wesley and All,<br>
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    I have been communicated ARPEGE grib2 issue with Meteo France for a
    month or so, <br>
    They claimed the file was ok.<br>
    <br>
    I have copy-pasted your part of the email and have sent them again.<br>
    <br>
    Will see what they say now.<br>
    <br>
    Marian<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dňa 17. 12. 2015 o 14:14 Wesley
      Ebisuzaki - NOAA Federal napísal(a):<br>
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cite="mid:CAMHOGek5p3qFibo2AeCOW-EAcMw2_14O8zxWne=A=BJJETZNKA@mail.gmail.com"
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                <div>Brian,<br>
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                I am being pedantic because I hope that the ARPEGE and
                AROME<br>
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              people will get word and fix their grib2 files.<br>
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            In order for GrADS to plot the ARPEGE file, GrADS needs to
            know the<br>
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          time of the fields.  For Product Definition Template (PDT) 4.8
          which is<br>
          used to describe averages and accumulations, there are 3
          different times.<br>
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           Reference time:  start of the forecast <br>
        <div>             Section 1, octets 13-19<br>
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        <div>   Start of the forecast time interval:<br>
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        <div>             reference time + forecast time (Section 3,
          octets 18-22)<br>
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        <div>   End of the forecast time interval:<br>
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        <div>              Section 3, octets 35-41<br>
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        <div>For your ARPEGE file, the only unique time should be the
          end of the forecast<br>
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        <div>time interval.   However when you examine the ARPEGE file.<br>
          <br>
          ebis@linux-landing:~/Downloads$ wgrib2
          ARPEGE_0.1_SP1_37H48H_201512150000.grib2 -s -start_ft -end_ft
          -match PRATE<br>
          133:32079786:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-37 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          134:32391856:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-38 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          135:32706662:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-39 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          136:33024062:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-40 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          137:33344053:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-41 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          138:33666613:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-42 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          139:33991684:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-43 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          140:34319034:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-44 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          141:34648323:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-45 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          142:34979540:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-46 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          143:35312524:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-47 hour acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121600<br>
          144:35647622:d=2015121500:TPRATE:surface:0-2 day acc
          fcst::start_ft=2015121500:end_ft=2015121700<br>
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        <div>You see that the TPRATE (totat precipitation rate) has the
          end of<br>
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        <div>the forecast time interval of 2015121600 which is wrong.  
          This ARPEGE file<br>
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        <div>needs to be fixed.  A few weeks ago, someone sent me a
          AROME<br>
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        <div>forecast file which had the same problem.<br>
          <br>
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        <div>So g2ctl and gribmap will not work until the grib file is
          fixed.<br>
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        <div>You can display the fields using <br>
          <br>
            alt_g2ctl -0t ARPEGE_0.1_SP1_37H48H_201512150000.grib2
          &gt;a.ctl<br>
            alt_gmp -i a.ctl<br>
          <br>
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        <div>This solution gives each field a unique name and doesn't
          use the<br>
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        <div>end of the forecast time.<br>
          <br>
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        <div>Maybe someone will inform the ARPEGE and AROME people and
          they <br>
          will fix their files.  <br>
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        <div>Wesley<br>
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                      <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at
                        6:13 AM, Brian Gaze <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            href="mailto:brian.gaze@ntlworld.com"
                            target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brian.gaze@ntlworld.com">brian.gaze@ntlworld.com</a></a>&gt;</span>
                        wrote:<br>
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                            <p>Wesley,</p>
                            <p>You can ftp down the grib file here using
                              anonymous:</p>
                            <p>137.135.248.188</p>
                            <p>ARPEGE_0.1_SP1_37H48H_201512150000.grib2</p>
                            <p>PS: It's about 40 meg and I tested the
                              ftp download successfully from a command
                              line rather than gui client</p>
                            <p>Cheers</p>
                            <p>Brian</p>
                            <p><br>
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                            <blockquote type="cite"> On 16 December 2015
                              at 15:03 Wesley Ebisuzaki - NOAA Federal
                              &lt;<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="mailto:wesley.ebisuzaki@noaa.gov"
                                target="_blank">wesley.ebisuzaki@noaa.gov</a>&gt;
                              wrote: <br>
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                                <div> Brian, <br>
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                                <div> It would be much easier if you
                                  made your grib file available <br>
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                                <div> by FTP. If the file is huge or is
                                  a proprietary forecast, you can <br>
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                                <div> zero out the data by <br>
                                  <br>
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                                <div> wgrib2 file.grib -rpn 0 -grib_out
                                  file00.grb <br>
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                                <div> Wesley <br>
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                                      <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue,
                                        Dec 15, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Brian
                                        Gaze &lt; <a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="mailto:brian.gaze@ntlworld.com"
                                          target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:brian.gaze@ntlworld.com">brian.gaze@ntlworld.com</a></a>&gt;
                                        wrote: <br>
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                                            <p>Hi,</p>
                                            <p>I'm working with Arpège
                                              grib2 files. These should
                                              I think each contain up to
                                              13 hourly forecast
                                              timesteps. If I run...</p>
                                            <p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                href="http://g2ctl.pl"
                                                target="_blank">g2ctl.pl</a>
                                              -verf -b file.grib2 &gt;
                                              file.ctl<br>
                                              gribmap -i file.ctl<br>
                                            </p>
                                            <p>...I'm able to open the
                                              .ctl file in GrADS but it
                                              only has 2 timesteps. T1
                                              seems to be the time the
                                              model was initialized and
                                              T2 the time of the first
                                              forecast step.</p>
                                            <p><br>
                                            </p>
                                            <p>If I try:</p>
                                            <p><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                                href="http://g2ctl.pl"
                                                target="_blank">g2ctl.pl</a>
                                              -b -ts1hr file.grib2 &gt;
                                              file.ctl<br>
                                              gribmap -i file.ctl</p>
                                            <p>It opens ok in GrADS and
                                              the correct number of
                                              timesteps are present but
                                              they begin from the model
                                              initialization hour rather
                                              than incrementing from the
                                              time of the first forecast
                                              step. For example:</p>
                                            <p>Model initialization: 0z
                                              15/12<br>
                                              Forecast time range
                                              contained in the file is
                                              +37 hours to +48 hours
                                              after initialization</p>
                                            <p>t2 = 1z 15/12<br>
                                              t3 = 2z 15/12<br>
                                              .. etc<br>
                                              <br>
                                              As a consequence, when I
                                              try to plot a variable the
                                              grid is undefined.</p>
                                            <p><br>
                                            </p>
                                            <p>What should I think be
                                              present is:<br>
                                              t2 = 13z 16/12<br>
                                              t3 = 14z 16/12<br>
                                              ..etc</p>
                                            <p>Any suggestions / ideas
                                              on what I'm doing wrong?</p>
                                            <p>Thanks</p>
                                            <p>BWG</p>
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