On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Lori Thompson wrote:
Robb-
I wrote earlier to the mailing list regarding hurricane Isabel data that I
was converting from GRIB to NetCDF. Apparently, the GRIB data has a time
range, which gribtocdl doesn't handle that well. As a result, the
conversion from grib => netcdf produced an extra record frame with blank
data. To solve this, I edited the cdl output from gribtocdl and modified
valtime_offset to be equal to 1 rather than 2 in the dimension section and
changed it from 0, $time to $time in the data section. However, this does
not seem to work with my new dataset. It shows a valtime_offset of 1
but the record dimension shows 2. An example grib data file is attached.
Lori,
The problem is the data in the file has more than one reference time, ie
reftime = 41592, 41592, 41591
datetime
"1996-09-29 00:00:00Z",
"1996-09-29 00:00:00Z",
"1996-09-28 23:00:00Z" ;
gribtonc was written for model data with one reference time with offsets
to forecast times. I believe it was the PRECIP parameter with the
1996-09-28 23:00:00Z reference time. If you remove the PRECIP data then
you can get the results that you want.
Robb...
Thanks for your help,
Lori
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