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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Wesley,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks. That does work. Also, thanks to the other people who responded (I didn’t have the typo when I issued the command – honest!). Some simple awk’ing gets
around this problem, but I was wondering if there was something else I was missing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jen and Victor – The first two digits after the 3<sup>rd</sup> underscore are the initialization hour. The “forecast” hour is the last group and it never changes
from 000 (it’s all analyses). My files look like this (after I removed the offending underscore):<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Would the initialization templating make that much of a difference then?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">~Dave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org [mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Wesley Ebisuzaki - NOAA Federal<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 20, 2017 6:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] Templating GFS analyses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Yes, it's a problem with g2ctl that was introduced with grib2ctl v0.9.12.5beta3 (6/2006).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">g2ct/grib2ctl need to find the 1st, 2nd and last files in chronological order. The<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">older grib2ctl used a sorted list of the files to find the 1st, 2nd and last files. Then<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">NCEP decided to make forecast files with 2 digit or 3 digit forecast hours. That<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">prevented using the sorted list from determining the 3 files. The newer code<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">assumes that the datecode can have no extra characters. Your files have<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">an underscore between the %d2 and %h2. A fix will require some thinking.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Work around: rename the files so that there is no underscore between<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">the %d2 an %h2 fields.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Wesley<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Ryglicki, Dr. David <<a href="mailto:david.ryglicki@nrlmry.navy.mil" target="_blank">david.ryglicki@nrlmry.navy.mil</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-msonormal">Hey, GrADS’ers.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-msonormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-msonormal">Simple question about g2ctl and templating over GFS analyses. I’m pulling data from NCEP’s HAS system, and when I get the data, it looks something like this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-msonormal">gfs_4_20120730_0000_000.grb2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-msonormal">gfs_4_20120730_0600_000.grb2<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="gmail-msonormal">…<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-msonormal">When I try templating with: “g2ctl -0 gfs_4_2012%m2%d2_%h200_00.grb2”, I get the error: ‘Argument “0730_00” isn’t numeric in numeric gt (>) at /path/to/g2ctl line 267.’<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-msonormal">I can get around this pretty easily with some awk, but I was wondering… am I doing something wrong here, or is this just how it is?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-msonormal">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="gmail-msonormal">~Dave<o:p></o:p></p>
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