[Met_help] Re: MET FEEDBACK from Gerald van der Grijn

[John Halley Gotway]

Gerald,

My guess is that you've installed and are running MET on a 64-bit machine.  Unfortunately, the BUFR library which MET links to for the PB2NC tool does not work well on a 64-bit machine.

I have told the folks at NCEP who developed BUFRLIB about the issue and they're working to address it.  For the time being though, you've have a couple of options:
(1) If you have access to a 32-bit machine, install and build MET there.  You may even be able to copy over the executables you generate to your 64-bit machine and run them there.
(2) Try to build MET (and the libraries on which it depends) on your 64-bit machine using the 32-bit compiler options.  I've attempted to do this on a 64-bit machine we have here at NCAR, but ran into 
several issues.  I had a difficult time trying to get NetCDF to compile as 32-bit.

I'll write the NCEP people and ask for an update.  I believe that once we resolve this issue in BUFRLIB for 64-bit machines, MET should run fine on them.

Let me know if there's anything else I can help you with.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway

MET.FEEDBACK at rap.ucar.edu wrote:
> First Name = Gerald
> Last Name = van der Grijn
> Institution = ARGOSS
> Email = grijn at argoss.nl
> MET Feedback = Hello,
> 
> I have successfully installed the tool kit. However, when I run the test script PB2NC does not seem to work. It gives the following message:
> 
> *** 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
> 
> 
> ERROR: main() -> No PrepBufr messages to process!
> 
> 
>  +++++++++++++++++++++++WARNING+++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  BUFRLIB: OPENBF - INPUT BUFR FILE IN UNIT  11 IS EMPTY
>  +++++++++++++++++++++++WARNING+++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> 
> Do you have any clue what the problem might be. It seems that my BUFR library has not been correctly installed....
> 
> 
> Thx,
> Gerald