[ncl-talk] Reading NAM files

[Guido Cioni]

Hey Barry,

ncl_grib2nc is deprecated, please use ncl_convert2nc instead.
This is a shell command, you have to call it outside of NCL (in the terminal). I just tried and it worked, although with some warning... 
cheers

Guido Cioni
http://guidocioni.altervista <http://guidocioni.altervista/>.org

> On 21 Nov 2016, at 12:38, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I assume that I need to convert namanl files to .nc format before using NCL.
> 
> However, the attached program (which should be simple to execute) will not read the attached file.
> 
> Thank you for your help,
> 
> Barry
> 
> [wrf at mn03 NAM]$ ncl ./grib_to_ncl.ncl 
>  Copyright (C) 1995-2014 - All Rights Reserved
>  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>  NCAR Command Language Version 6.2.1
>  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ <http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/> for more details.
> fatal:syntax error: line 19 in file ./grib_to_ncl.ncl before or near namanl_218_20130208_0000_000 
>   ncl_grib2nc namanl_218_20130208_0000_000
> -----------------------------------------^
> 
> fatal:error in statement
> fatal:Syntax Error in block, block not executed
> fatal:error at line 21 in file ./grib_to_ncl.ncl
> ​
>  namanl_218_20130208_0000_000.grb <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3E3GjUeKpBdQmJMZ01WVGdBRFk/view?usp=drive_web>​
> 
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