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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 4, 2019 6:32:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] WPC 2.5km GRIB2 Files</font>
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<div>Hi Aaron,
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<div class="">WPC changed their files recently and I ran into a similar issue with the regular QPF files. </div>
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<div class="">Here is my current CTL file to read in the QPF files: (note the slight differences in the various variable settings)</div>
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<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>
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<div class="">Someone was gracious enough in this group to help me fix this issue for my purposes, so hopefully this resolves yours. </div>
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<div class="">Regards,</div>
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<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>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">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>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px">Data: <a href="ftp://ftp.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/conus_2.5km/2.5kmpwpf_48hr/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030100f048.grb" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk36552">ftp://ftp.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/pwpf/conus_2.5km/2.5kmpwpf_48hr/2.5kmprcntil_48hsnow_50pt_2019030100f048.grb</a></div>
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<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>
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<div class="" style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"><b class="">GrADS Error</b></div>
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<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>
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<div class="">What's going on here? This should be rather cut-and-dry.</div>
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