<div dir="ltr"><div>When your data have a variable time increment, there really is nothing you can do to account for this in a single control file. Your options are to either:</div><div><br></div><div>1) Write three control files, one for each time increment</div><div>2) Be judicious and mathematical when making plots from the control file using the finest time increment</div><div><br></div><div>In my own work, I've gone with the latter. Good luck.</div><div><br></div><div>Jeff<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 10:55 PM Mike Manning <<a href="mailto:weathermon83@gmail.com">weathermon83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-AU"><div class="gmail-m_-1232625707183467600WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">Thanks Jeff,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">That’ll work perfect  - do you know what the best way to be of templating these data files in the descriptor file which have 3 time series of hourly, 3 hourly and 6 hourly? I was thinking of using the chusb however that still requires the files to be in an incremental series. Of course if I use apf00_%f3 it’ll stop once it hits hour 54 because then it goes to 3 hourly after that. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">Hourly from 1-54, 3 hourly from 57-144, 6 hourly from 150-168<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_001<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_002<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_003<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_004<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_005<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_006<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_007<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_008<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_009<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_010<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_011<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_012<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_013<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_014<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_015<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_016<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_017<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_018<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_019<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_020<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_021<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_022<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_023<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_024<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_025<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_026<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_027<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_028<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_029<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_030<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_031<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_032<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_033<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_034<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_035<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_036<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_037<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_038<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_039<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_040<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_041<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_042<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_043<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_044<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_045<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_046<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_047<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_048<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_049<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_050<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_051<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_052<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_053<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_054<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_057<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_060<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_063<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_066<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_069<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_072<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_075<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_078<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_081<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_084<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_087<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_090<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_093<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_096<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_099<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_102<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_105<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_108<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_111<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_114<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_117<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_120<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_123<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_126<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_129<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_132<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_135<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_138<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_141<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_144<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_150<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_156<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_162<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)">apf00_168<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(68,84,106)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> gradsusr [mailto:<a href="mailto:gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr-bounces@gradsusr.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff Duda<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 10 December 2020 1:47 PM<br><b>To:</b> GrADS Users Forum<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [gradsusr] Accumulated Precip issues<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Mike,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">You can use a t-index skip value in the sum function. So you would do something like <i>sum(apcpsfc,t=1,t=72,2</i>) to sum precip grids from <u>only every other time index</u> in the control file. This, of course, assumes the interval is regular and that the 6-hourly data contains all of the 3-hourly data. I think for GFS output this is indeed true, but you should check a few time steps just to be sure. Plotting the difference between a few pairs of time-consecutive precip fields should help you confirm.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Jeff Duda<u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 8:30 PM Mike Manning <<a href="mailto:weathermon83@gmail.com" target="_blank">weathermon83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">There are several models which provide GRIB2 data with say 3 hourly until x amount of hours and then 6 hourly until the end of that run.  Some models even have a tertiary time step where they run hourly, 3 hourly and then 6 hourly data..<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the moment for templating, I’m creating a control file for each series however this doesn’t seem ideal for accumulated precip.  EG I can use sum(apcpsfc, t=1, t=72) for a model that uses hourly from 1-72 hours, but what would I do for a model that then goes 3 hourly from 72-144 hours for accumulated precip? How would I get the entire 1-144 hours of accumulated precip totals? Is there a better way of templating the data so it’s all combined or does it need to be kept separate because I’m dealing with different time series? I can’t seem to find any way to tally together the accumulated precip data once the time series changes from hourly to 3 hourly (and again for models that have 3 time series such as UKMO)<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cheers, Mike<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal">_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><u></u><u></u></p></blockquote></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br clear="all"><br>-- <u></u><u></u></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt">Jeff Duda, Research Scientist</span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">University of Colorado Boulder<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Laboratory<br><span style="font-size:10pt">Boulder, CO</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
gradsusr mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>
<a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span>Jeff Duda, Research Scientist</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span></span></font>University of Colorado Boulder</div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span></span></font>Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences</div><div dir="ltr">NOAA/OAR/ESRL/Global Systems Laboratory<br><font size="2"><span>

<span>Boulder, CO<br></span></span></font>



</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>