[Wrf-users] Help with GFS data to force WRF

Thu Sep 28 09:22:28 MDT 2017

Dear Carlos and Barry,

thank you very much for your attention and help with this topic.

Now, I can easily find GFS data in grib2 format in the link
 https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/index.html#sfol-wl-/data/ds083.2?g=2

Cheers

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Carlos Ross <cf.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> Instead of getting the converted files to netcdf download the grib2 files
> in "Web File Listing" not in "Get Converted Files"
> The direct link is this:
> https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/index.html#sfol-wl-/data/ds083.2?g=2
>
>
>
> 2017-09-28 2:46 GMT-03:00 Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Jose:
>>
>> I appreciate your bringing to my attention the links to these pages.
>> However, I will need authorization to go to the last link.
>>
>> I did some checking, but I see only ways to convert GRIB to NETCDF, but
>> not the reverse.
>>
>> If you just need 0.5 degree data, you can get reanalysis GFS data from
>> the site I mentioned. If it is for model runs, it should be acceptable.
>>
>> Otherwise, perhaps WRFHelp can comment.
>>
>> Barry
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga <
>> veiga.uea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Barry,
>>>
>>> To access GFS data I do the following steps:
>>>
>>> 1) go to the WRF user site (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/)
>>>
>>> 2) I access the link Download (Input Data from NCAR)
>>>
>>> 3) I choose the link to access  NCEP Final Analysis (GFS-FNL) *ds083.2 *
>>>
>>> 4) Go to https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/#!access
>>>
>>> 5) And final
>>> l
>>> y I access the products *GRIB2 6 HOURLY FILES 2007.12.06* to current
>>> (get converted files)
>>> .
>>>
>>> Is this wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 9:39 PM, Barry Lynn <barry.h.lynn at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> Where are you downloading this data?
>>>>
>>>> I didn't notice this change.
>>>>
>>>> https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 10:55 PM, Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga <
>>>> veiga.uea at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> some months ago I used to download GFS data in Grib2 format to force
>>>>> WRF model. However, nowadays, these data are available in Netcdf format. In
>>>>> this case, I would like to know what software can I use to convert them
>>>>> into Grib2 format?
>>>>>
>>>>> I tried CDO (version 1.8), via the command:
>>>>>
>>>>> cdo -f grb2 fnl_20160908_12_00.grib2.nc  fileout.grb2
>>>>>
>>>>> However, it didn't work. See the message bellow:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> *Warning (set_zaxistype) : NetCDF attribute level_type='ground or
>>>>> water surface' unsupported!*
>>>>>
>>>>> *Warning (set_gridtype) : NetCDF attribute
>>>>> grid_type='latitude/longitude' unsupported!*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I really appreciate if someone could tell me what should I do to
>>>>> convert these data into Grib2 format to force WRF.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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