[Met_help] pb2nc in v2 beta

[John Halley Gotway]

Jonathan,

I'm actually glad to hear that you're seeing this error from PB2NC.

In order to remove the "cwordsh" step, we incorporated the
fortran-blocking step into the PB2NC tool itself.  However, the number of
bytes that need to be blocked is machine/compiler dependent - either 4 or
8.  To handle this, we've added a compile-time flag to control how many
bytes to block.

In the PGI Makefile, the default is to use 4-byte blocking, thus the
"-DBLOCK4" flag is set in the "ARCH_FLAGS" line of the top-level Makefile.
 Please try commenting out that flag in your Makefile, rebuilding, and
running PB2NC.  This will tell MET to use 8-byte blocking instead. 
Hopefully, you won't see that error from PB2NC anymore.

This will all be added to the build instructions in the METv2.0 user's guide.

We tried to make it so that PB2NC could handle either blocked or unblocked
files.  So please let me know if both of them work for you or not.

Thanks,
John

> Well, it appears that neither the unblocked nor the blocked data will
> process through pb2nc for me in v2 beta:
>
>
>
> lc2:/usr/people/casejl > ./met-pb2nc.sh
>
> Reading Config File:
> /usr/people/casejl/MET/CURRENT/data/config/PB2NCConfig_SFONLY_WRF
>
> Creating NetCDF File:
> /raid1/casejl/MET/PB2NC/OUTPUT/gdas1.20080601.SFONLY.WRF.nc
>
> Processing PrepBufr File:
> /raid1/casejl/DATA/PREPBUFR/gdas1.20080601.t06z.prepbufr.unblok.nr
>
> Blocking PrepBufr file to:      ./pb2nc_tmp/pb2nc_795_0_blk.pb
>
>
>
>  **************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*****************
>
>
>
> -Jonathan
>
>
>
> ----------------
>
> John,
>
>
>
> It now appears that I need to pass pb2nc the UNBLOCKED prepbufr data
> from NOMADS as opposed to running cwordsh on my  own.  Here is the error
> I encountered when trying to run pb2nc on the data I fortran-blocked
> with cwordsh:
>
>
>
> lc2:/usr/people/casejl > ./met-pb2nc.sh
>
> Reading Config File:
> /usr/people/casejl/MET/CURRENT/data/config/PB2NCConfig_SFONLY_WRF
>
> Creating NetCDF File:
> /raid1/casejl/MET/PB2NC/OUTPUT/gdas1.20080601.SFONLY.WRF.nc
>
> Processing PrepBufr File:
> /raid1/casejl/DATA/PREPBUFR/gdas1.20080601.t06z.prepbufr.blk.nr
>
> Blocking PrepBufr file to:      ./pb2nc_tmp/pb2nc_25879_0_blk.pb
>
>
>
>  **************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*****************
>
>
>
> Is my interpretation correct then?
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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