[Met_help] WRF-BUFRLIB

[John Halley Gotway]

Randhir,

Can you tell me, are you compiling MET on a 64-bit operating system?  If
so, you may have these run-time problems with BUFRLIB.

But first, please try the following:
- Open up the top-level Makefile in the METv2.0 directory, and look at the
line for "ARCH_FLAGS".
- If it contains "-DBLOCK4" comment it out by putting a '#' in front of it.
- But if it already has "-DBLOCK4" commented out, then un-comment it by
removing the '#'.
- Then rebuild MET, by doing a "make clean" followed by a "make".

Next, go into the "scripts" directory, and try running the "test_pb2nc.sh"
test script and see if you still get the same error.

If so, please write me back with the name of the operating system you're
using and the compiler name and version numbers.  Using BUFRLIB on 64-bit
machines has been problematic, making for problems with the PB2NC tool. 
If you have access to a 32-bit machine, BUFRLIB would work a lot better on
it.

Thanks,
John

>
> Dear John,
>
> While reading the radiances data in BUFR format. I am getting the error
> shown below. I came to know that u also had similar error while using MET
> software for WRF output. Can U help me to solve this problem.
>
> **************BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT*****************
>  BUFRLIB: OPENBF - ERROR READING INPUT FILE CONNECTED TO UNIT  11 WHEN
> CHECKING FOR 'BUFR' IN FIRST 4 BYTES OF RECORD
>  **************BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT*****************
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Randhir
>
>
> Dr. Randhir Singh Huda
> Scientist
> Atmospheric Sciences Division
> Meteorology & Oceanography group,
> Remote Sensing and Image Processing Area(RESIPA)
> Space Applications Centre
> Indian Space Research Organization(ISRO)
> Ahmedabad-380015, INDIA
> Phone:+91-79-26916105(Off)
>       +91-79-26861349(Rsi)
>
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