<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Aaron,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">WPC changed their files recently and I ran into a similar issue with the regular QPF files. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is my current CTL file to read in the QPF files: (note the slight differences in the various variable settings)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">weather:fweather1 /mnt/modeldata/domModel/WPC/grads_ctl > cat 2019040418_wpc_18_078_20km.ctl</div><div class="">dset /mnt/modeldata/domModel/WPC/18Z/201904/2019040418_wpc_20km_078.grb2</div><div class="">index /mnt/modeldata/domModel/WPC/grads_ctl/2019040418_wpc_18_078_20km.idx</div><div class="">undef 9.999E+20</div><div class="">title /mnt/modeldata/domModel/WPC/18Z/201904/2019040418_wpc_20km_078.grb2</div><div class="">* produced by g2ctl v0.1.1</div><div class="">* command line options: /mnt/modeldata/domModel/WPC/18Z/201904/2019040418_wpc_20km_078.grb2 /mnt/modeldata/domModel/WPC/grads_ctl/2019040418_wpc_18_078_20km.idx</div><div class="">* griddef=1:21:(2145 x 1597):grid_template=30:winds(grid): Lambert Conformal: (2145 x 1597) input WE:SN output WE:SN res 8 Lat1 20.191999 Lon1 238.445999 LoV 265.000000 LatD 25.000000 Latin1 25.000000 Latin2 25.000000 LatSP -90.000000 LonSP 0.000000 </div><div class="">dtype grib2</div><div class="">pdef 2145 <b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">1597</font></b> lccr 20.191999 -121.554001 1 1 25.000000 25.000000 -95 2539.703000 2539.702000</div><div class="">xdef <b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">2966</font></b> linear -131.995167 0.0246001009814572</div><div class="">ydef <b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">1598</font></b> linear 20.196426 0.0230882</div><div class="">tdef 1 linear 00Z07apr2019 1mo</div><div class="">zdef 1 linear 1 1</div><div class="">vars 1</div><div class="">APCPl1_1 0,1,0,-1 0,1,8,1 ** surface - surface Total Precipitation [kg/m^2]</div><div class="">ENDVARS</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Someone was gracious enough in this group to help me fix this issue for my purposes, so hopefully this resolves yours. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Kevin M Levey, MSc in Oceans and Atmospheric Sciences (University of Cape Town)<br class="">Vice President of Operations<br class="">CustomWeather, Inc.<br class="">San Francisco, California, USA<br class=""><br class="">"Taking the World by Storm!"<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.customweather.com" class="">http://www.customweather.com</a><br class="">http://www.myforecast.com<br class="">http://www.1stweather.com<br class=""><br class="">cell: 415-794-0411<br class="">work: 415-777-3566<br class="">email: klevey@customweather.com
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 1, 2019, at 6:42 AM, Perry, Aaron <<a href="mailto:Aaron.Perry@lsc.vsc.edu" class="">Aaron.Perry@lsc.vsc.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Hi All,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">I am working with the WPC's 2.5km Winter Probability GRIB2 files and I'm having trouble generating index files and opening them in GrADS.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="">Data: <a href="ftp://ftp.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/conus_2.5km/2.5kmpwpf_48hr/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030100f048.grb" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk36552" previewremoved="true">ftp://ftp.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/conus_2.5km/2.5kmpwpf_48hr/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030100f048.grb</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><b class="">Control File</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div class="">dset /home/weather/data/wpc/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030112f048.grb</div><div class="">index /home/weather/data/wpc/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030112f048.grb.idx</div><div class="">undef 9.999E+20</div><div class="">title /home/weather/data/wpc/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030112f048.grb</div><div class="">* produced by g2ctl v0.1.4</div><div class="">* command line options: /home/weather/data/wpc/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030112f048.grb</div><div class="">* griddef=1:21:(2145 x 1377):grid_template=30:winds(grid): Lambert Conformal: (2145 x 1377) input WE:SN output WE:SN res 8 Lat1 20.191999 Lon1 238.445999 LoV 265.000000 LatD 25.000000 Latin1 25.000000 Latin2 25.000000 LatSP -90.000000 LonSP 0.000000 </div><div class="">dtype grib2</div><div class="">pdef 2145 1377 lccr 20.191999 -121.554001 1 1 25.000000 25.000000 -95 2539.702000 2539.698000</div><div class="">xdef 2814 linear -130.103416 0.0246000912952455</div><div class="">ydef 1413 linear 20.196426 0.0230881636363636</div><div class="">tdef 1 linear 12Z03mar2019 1mo</div><div class="">zdef 1 linear 1 1</div><div class="">vars 1</div><div class="">ASNOW50PCsfc 0,1,0 a50 ** surface acc Total Snowfall [m]</div><div class="">ENDVARS</div><br class=""><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><b class="">GrADS Error</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div class="">Open Error: Invalid variable record</div><div class=""> --> The invalid description file record is: </div><div class=""> --> ASNOW50PCsfc 0,1,0 a50 ** surface acc Total Snowfall [m]</div><div class=""> The data file was not opened. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What's going on here? This should be rather cut-and-dry.</div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div id="Signature" class=""><div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif, EmojiFont, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", NotoColorEmoji, "Segoe UI Symbol", "Android Emoji", EmojiSymbols;" class=""><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></font></div><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""></span><div style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;" class=""><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" class=""><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Aaron Perry</span></b></span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Class of 2016</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">Lyndon State College</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2" color="#006FC9" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><br class="">Lyndonville, VT 05851</span></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Tahoma; 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