[ncl-talk] Error reading grib file

[Xin Zhou]

Thank you for the advice! I will try different data set.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Please contact the data set expert listed at the RDA website.
>
> --
>
> FYI: the gage.hrly.prcp.yyyymmdd data are in ASCII by stations, not grib.
>
> --
>
> Try
>
> %> less gage.hrly.prcp.20020101
>
> ---
>
> Or you can use ST2gg2002010100.Grb.Z file in ST2_4km file, or
> ST4.2002010100.01h.Z grib file in ST4 tar file.
>
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> FYI only:  http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/HiResPrc.shtml
>
> See the ST4 examples at the bottom
>
> D
>
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Xin Zhou <xin.zhou.1 at stonybrook.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> It seems "addfile" cannot access the data. I'm not sure whether the
>> documented format is correct, or the files that I downloaded are corrupted.
>> Because I only meet this problem using the dataset from UCAR's research
>> data archieve (http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds507.5/).
>>
>> Best,
>> Xin
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:48 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Xin,
>>> I was about to take a look at a sample of these files but it appears
>>> that that the RDA is having server issues and data are inaccessible
>>> right now. I will give it another try when it comes back on line.
>>>  -dave
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Xin Zhou <xin.zhou.1 at stonybrook.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Kacie,
>>> >
>>> > Thank you! I tried adding adding different file extensions (.grib,
>>> .grib1
>>> > etc.), but none of them worked. For some unknown reason, the file still
>>> > cannot be opened by addfile.
>>> >
>>> > Best,
>>> > Xin
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Kacie Shourd <Kacie.Shourd at dri.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi, Xin!
>>> >>
>>> >> Try adding the file extension, like this:
>>> >>
>>> >> f = addfile("./gage.hrly.prcp.20020101.grib1","r")
>>> >>
>>> >> Best,
>>> >> Kacie
>>> >>
>>> >> ---
>>> >> Kacie N. Shourd
>>> >> 드림
>>> >>
>>> >> Graduate Research Assistant
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>>> >> Xin Zhou [xin.zhou.1 at stonybrook.edu]
>>> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 2:03 PM
>>> >> To: ncl-talk at ucar.edu
>>> >> Subject: [ncl-talk] Error reading grib file
>>> >>
>>> >> Dear All,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm looking at the 4km resolution hourly precipitation from NCEP/CPC
>>> >> (http://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds507.5/). The documented data format
>>> is
>>> >> GRIB1, but when using "addfile" no variables were printed.
>>> >>
>>> >> ncl 0> f = addfile("./gage.hrly.prcp.20020101","r")
>>> >> ncl 1> print(f)
>>> >>
>>> >> Variable: f
>>> >> Type: file
>>> >> (0) File Missing Value : -1
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> Does anyone have a clue how to access the data?
>>> >> Thank you all!
>>> >>
>>> >> Best,
>>> >> Xin
>>> >>
>>> >>
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*Xin Zhou*
Ph.D. Candidate
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11794-5000
xin.zhou.1 at stonybrook.edu
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