[Met_help] pcp_combine, trouble reading GRIB

[matthew.pyle at noaa.gov]

Hi,

I got everything to compile okay, but am not having success with the 
pcp_combine tests.  I get garbagey (1e+30) kinds of values for the 
precipitation totals in the resulting netCDF files, and the bad 
information appears to be coming from the GRIB.  Turning up the 
verbosity, I see some proper PDS/GDS information from the GRIB, along 
with some bad values.   Any ideas why some of the GRIB information 
appears to be read okay, while other parts are not?  I'm doing this work 
on an IBM.  A few diagnostic snippets are below.

Thanks,

Matt


   lat1:       12190
   lon1:       8522067  <--- should be -133459 (or 226541 E)
   res_flag:   8
   lov:        8483608 <--- should be -95000 (or 265000 E)
   dx:         40635
   dy:         40635
   pc_flag:    0
   scan_flag:  64
   latin1:     25000
   latin2:     25000
   lat_sp:     0
   lon_sp:     0

===================================================

Grib Record:

   gds_flag:            1
   bms_flag:            1
   nx:                  185
   ny:                  129
   m_value:                0.00100
   b_value:                  -NaNQ
   r_value:                  -NaNQ
   d_value:             3
   e_value:             0
   issue:               1123372800
   lead:                32400
   word_size:           14
   record_lseek_offset: 8257958
   data_lseek_offset:   8261037
   mask:                16383

===================================================
Grib Record Index = 560
Initialization time = 1123372800
Valid time = 1123416000
Accumulation time = 10800
Grib Record (min, max) = (100000002004087734272.00000, 
-100000002004087734272.00000)