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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>For years I’ve been using CDO to convert ECMWF’s IFS grib files to netcdf and converting it from reduced Gaussian grid to regular lat lon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>But CDO has not kept up the pace with updates and they do not respond to many questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Therefore, I’m attempting to move this part of my processing chain to NCL.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I’m using NCL 6.5 (beta) to read the grib file (see attached log file). There 1 or 2 problems and then I have a question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My NCL script is not finding the experimental variables in the grib file. These variables are given the generic names varXXX where XXX can be between 88 and 111, for example.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>The script also doesn’t find the 3D records. I’m not sure how NCL finds these records in the grib file and then lists them as a 3D (time,lev,lat,lon), not counting the time. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If 1 and 2 can be resolved, how can I then convert the reduced Gaussian grid to regular lat lon? Would ESMF work if I setup a regular lat lon grid?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Appreciate your thoughts on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>/M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Marston S. Johnston, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Department of Earth Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>University of Gothenburg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Email: <a href="mailto:marston.johnston@gu.se"><span style='color:#0070C0'>marston.johnston@gu.se</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>SkypeID: marston.johnston <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Phone: +46-31-7864901 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Only the fruitful thing is true!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>