[Met_help] Re: MET 1.0 tests not working

[Cory Davis]

Sorry, further still, my machine is x86_64 running RHEL4, and I compiled
everything with the Gnu compilers.
Cheers,
Cory.

On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 01:25 +0000, Cory Davis wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> We are having trouble running the test cases that come with MET v1.0.
> There were problems with test_grid_stat.sh and test_pb2nc.sh. We have
> managed to resolve the grid_stat issue by modifying grid_stat.cc.
> 
> The problem was occuring in the functions write_fcst_netcdf and
> write_obs_netcdf when creating the netcdf variable names fcst_var_name,
> diff_var_name, and obs_var_name.  I am no c expert, but the sprintf
> calls did not seem to like the get_grib_code_abbr call as an argument,
> and the resulting segment of the *_var_name variable was a garbage
> string.  I have solved this problem by creating a new string
> code_abbr_str, which is assigned thus (only once):
> 
> strcpy(code_abbr_str,get_grib_code_abbr(gc_info[lev].code,
> conf.ncep_defaults().ival(), status));
> 
> and then passed to sprintf:
> sprintf(fcst_var_name, "FCST_%s_%s_%s_%s_%i",code_abbr_str,
> gc_info[lev].lvl_str, mask_names[i], mthd_str[mthd], wdth*wdth);
> 
> I have attached my modified grid_stat.cc
> 
> ---------------
> 
> The problem with test_pb2nc.sh is the following
> 
> [cory at hydra scripts]$ test_pb2nc.sh  *** Running PB2NC on a
> fortran-blocked PrepBufr file ***
> PrepBufr2NC config file: config/PB2NCConfig_G212
> Opening PrepBufr
> file: ../data/sample_obs/prepbufr/ndas.t00z.prepbufr.tm12.20070401.nr.blk
> 
>  **************BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT*****************
>  BUFRLIB: OPENBF - FIRST 4 BYTES READ FROM RECORD IN INPUT FILE
> CONNECTED TO UNIT  11 NOT 'BUFR', DOES NOT CONTAIN BUFR DATA
>  **************BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT*****************
> 
> 
> I have tried unblocking this with cwordsh to no avail.  It is possible
> that we will want to avoid pb2nc for our application, because our
> observations are already in netcdf - we may decide to just write a
> program converting our netcdf obs files to the MET internal netcdf
> format.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cory
> 
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