[ncl-talk] Reading NAM files

[Guido Cioni]

By the way, NCL can read GRIB file directly, which is definitely better than converting it into netcdf. See https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/addfile.shtml <https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/addfile.shtml>

Guido Cioni
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> On 21 Nov 2016, at 13:41, Guido Cioni <guidocioni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <mailto: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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