<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi Daniel,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Unfortunately you won't be able to point to a 6.3.0 contributed.ncl while using a 6.1.2 "ncl", because it is very likely that contributed.ncl is depending on a new built-in function that's only available in the 6.3.0 ncl executable.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">We should try to figure out why you can't open your GRIB file with 6.3.0. We try *very hard* to be backwards compatible, but sometimes with GRIB files, there are things we have to change, usually having to do with variable names. I don't know if that's what's happening in your case.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Are you getting an error? It would be helpful if we could see it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Also in NCL V6.2.0, which was released between 6.1.2 and 6.3.0, there were some updates to the GRIB reader. Maybe this update is affecting you? You can read more about these updates at:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/prev_releases.shtml#FileIOImprovements6.2.0">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/prev_releases.shtml#FileIOImprovements6.2.0</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">Also, you might want to read the "file I/O improvements" section of our 6.3.0 release notes:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/current_release.shtml#Improvements6.3.0">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/current_release.shtml#Improvements6.3.0</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Daniel Barandiaran - NOAA Affiliate <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daniel.barandiaran@noaa.gov" target="_blank">daniel.barandiaran@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">It seems a little strange to me as well, but the bottom line is that I could open the GRIB file no problem using the 6.1.2 installed on our server, but could not using my test-install of 6.3.0. Paths in our machine are preset, and I'm not even sure exactly where they all point to. In order to ensure I was running the test install I put an alias in my .bashrc, and I made sure to set $NCAR_ROOT to point to the test install as well.<br></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 2:03 PM, Guido Cioni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guidocioni@gmail.com" target="_blank">guidocioni@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Hey Daniel,</div><div>I’m sure that someone will be more useful than me but…aren’t GRIB library supposed to be independent from NCL?</div><div>Maybe there is something wrong on GRIB API and not on the installation of NCL, or maybe you didn’t set the GRIB_API path properly? Just saying, don’t know whether it is relevant or not :) </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="m_73035838054584018h5"><div>Il giorno 02 feb 2017, alle ore 19:13, Daniel Barandiaran - NOAA Affiliate <<a href="mailto:daniel.barandiaran@noaa.gov" target="_blank">daniel.barandiaran@noaa.gov</a>> ha scritto:</div><br class="m_73035838054584018m_-5718328565142321710Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="m_73035838054584018h5"><div dir="ltr">Our work machine here at CPC is running ncl-6.1.2. I requested an update and got turned down by the IT folks; their reason had something to do with old netCDF packages and an eventual upgrade of our Linux environment, at which time it would be easier to upgrade. In the meantime I tried to unpack the latest binaries into my personal work directory and set paths appropriately, but sure enough there were some serious problems, like not being able to read variables out of a GRIB file. I have therefore mostly resigned myself to working with 6.1.2, but this morning I thought that a lot of the functions I am pining for reside in contributed.ncl, so I was wondering if I could point to the contributed.ncl that came with 6.3.0 while still running 6.1.2? And what about the ESMF regridding, could I point to the ESMF_regridding.ncl script and use those functions as well?<br clear="all"><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="m_73035838054584018m_-5718328565142321710gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Danny Barandiaran, Ph.D.<br></div>Contract Scientist-INNOVIM<br><span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Climate Prediction Center/NCEP/NWS, W/NP5 <br>National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction</span></font></span></span></span><br><br></div></div>
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