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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thanks Jeff and Dan for the quick responses!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I think I found the issue and it’s due to the version of wgrib2 I’m using – I tested the process with a newer version of wgrib2 and I’m getting different ctl files when running g2ctl with
the new version.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">When using the older version of wgrib2 in g2ctl, I was getting the following errors:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $east in addition (+) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 633.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $west in addition (+) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 633.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $east in addition (+) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 634.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $west in addition (+) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 634.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">pdef 614 428 lccr 12.190000 -133.459 1 1 25.000000 25.000000 -95 12191.000000 12191.000000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $west in subtraction (-) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 649.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $east in subtraction (-) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 649.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $west in numeric eq (==) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 650.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $west in concatenation (.) or string at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 653.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">xdef 1 linear 0.113383763365335<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $south in subtraction (-) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 654.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $north in subtraction (-) at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 654.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Use of uninitialized value $south in concatenation (.) or string at /home/sam.wilson/science-scripts/scripts/download/common/g2ctl.pl line 655.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">I don’t get the above with the newer version, so my guess is this should solve it. I’ll get back if I still run into issues after making the upgrade to wgrib2.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Thanks again for the help!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri">Sam<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"><gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org> on behalf of dan martin <sailmaui@gmail.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, March 23, 2017 at 8:52 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>GrADS Users Forum <gradsusr@gradsusr.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [gradsusr] NAM 12km vs. NAM Conus Nest Wind Direction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My ctl made made with g2ctl is different than what you have. I'm not having any issues with the winds.
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 5:05 AM, Sam Wilson <<a href="mailto:sam@surfline.com" target="_blank">sam@surfline.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">After the recent upgrade of the high resolution NAM conus nest, the wind direction in the wind plots I make appears to be wrong.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I also plot wind data from the NAM 12km data – below are the PDEF, XDEF, and YDEF lines from a NAM 12km ctl file and a NAM conus nest ctl file:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NAM 12km:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">pdef 614 428 lccr 12.190000 226.541000 1 1 25.000000 25.000000 265.000000 12191 12191</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ydef 428 linear 12.190000 0.110827272727273</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">NAM conus nest:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">pdef 1799 1059 lccr 21.138000 237.280000 1 1 38.500000 38.500000 262.500000 3000 3000</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">xdef 1799 linear -122.72 0.0292401642786411</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">ydef 1059 linear 21.138000 0.0272727272727273</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The NAM conus nest wind directions appear to be about 90 degrees offset from those of the NAM 12km. I initially thought it may be an issue where
one is using grid relative where another is using earth relative, but now I’m second guessing that – I ran wgrib2 on a single file from each with the -vector_dir option and both appear to show grid relative.. and as you can see above, both have “lccr” in the
PDEF.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">What I’m after is being able to plot wind barbs in the meteorological convention from both and I’m curious why I’m getting different results between
the above two datasets when plotting the same way.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Many thanks!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sam Wilson</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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