[ncl-talk] Grib file warning

[Jason English]

I will see if we can get NCL 6.3.0 installed. I'm on Theia which is NOAA's
newest supercomputer, replacing Zeus.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Dave Brown is the person. He is off today.
>
> See the '*File I/O improvements'* of the most recent version (6.3.0)
>    http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/current_release.shtml
>
> The GRIB stuff is a moving target.  No surprise that no commercial tools
> would support it.
>
> ===
>
> What machine are upu working on?
>
> D
>
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Jason English <jayenglish at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> Thanks for the tips.  Who updates the GRIB look-up tables? I'm analyzing
>> output from the NCEP GFS weather prediction runs which is pretty standard
>> output, so I'm surprised I'm getting warnings.
>>
>> I'm using NCL 6.2.1.
>>
>> ~Jason
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> [1] These are 'warnings'. The unpacked values are correct but there are
>>> no entries in the GRIB look-up tables used by NCL to create a valid netCDF
>>> variable name; also, long_name, units
>>>
>>> [2]  http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/FAQ/
>>>
>>>       Error messages:
>>>
>>> *How can I turn off NCL warning messages?*
>>>
>>> You can add the following code near the top of your NCL script:
>>>
>>>   err = NhlGetErrorObjectId()
>>>   setvalues err
>>>     "errLevel" : "Fatal"          ; only report Fatal errors
>>>   end setvalues
>>>
>>> This will turn off *all* "warning" type messages, so only do this if
>>> you are feeling pretty confident about your code.
>>>
>>> For more information about error reporting, see the documentation for
>>> *NhlGetErrorObjectId*
>>> <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/NhlGetErrorObjectId.shtml>.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [3] What version of NCL are you using? There are numerous additions to
>>> the 6.3.0 version of NCL.
>>>
>>> %> ncl -V
>>>
>>>
>>> D
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Jason English <jayenglish at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am opening GFS output Grib files using NCL and I constantly get
>>>> warnings such as these:
>>>>
>>>> warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (241, center 7,
>>>> table version 129 grib record 5), using default variable name (VAR_241)
>>>> warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (250, center 7,
>>>> table version 129 grib record 280), using default variable name (VAR_250)
>>>> warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (191, center 7,
>>>> table version 133 grib record 349), using default variable name (VAR_191)
>>>>
>>>> It doesn't cause any problems other than it makes my scripts difficult
>>>> to read the print statements that are more useful.  How do we add grib
>>>> parameters to the master table? If that's not an option, how do we suppress
>>>> these warnings? Thanks.
>>>>
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>>
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