[ncl-talk] NCL reading grib files

[David Brown]

Hi Partha,

Just to let you know, this problem has been fixed; the fix will be included
in NCL 6.3.0. If you need a corrected version now let us know.
 -dave


On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:

> These files have almost 600,000 bytes of non-GRIB data before the first
> GRIB record is encountered in the file. This is not officially wrong
> according to the GRIB spec but it is pretty unusual at least compared to
> the GRIB files we usually encounter. NCL currently reads close to 500,000
> bytes before it concludes that the file does not contain valid GRIB data.
> Perhaps it needs to read through the whole file before reaching this
> conclusion. I will create a ticket and we will address this issue.
>  -dave
>
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Partha Bhattacharjee <pbhatta2 at jhu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>>  I have NCL v6.2 and using command "ncl_filedump" I could not open
>> "ngac.t00z.sigf00" and "ngac.t00z.flxf00" files. I have put those files in
>> ftp. I would like to open and use those files using ncl.
>>
>>
>>   Used the following command : ncl_filedump ngac.t00z.flxf00.grb (or
>> grb2) and shows the following error
>>
>>
>>  fatal: An internal error has occurred. The file format requested does
>> not appear to be supported, could not open (ngac.t00z.flxf00.grb)
>>
>>
>>  Variable: f
>>
>> Type: file
>>
>> (0) File Missing Value : -1
>>
>>
>>  Any help. ​
>>
>>
>>
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