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Hi,So I was poking around on my machine today looking at all the fancy GFS data we graciously and reliably get via the IDD.
$ ls -l 2007010900* -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 3315716 Jan 8 22:08 2007010900_gfs201.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 5135876 Jan 8 22:08 2007010900_gfs202.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 3979268 Jan 8 22:08 2007010900_gfs203.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 52307972 Jan 8 22:38 2007010900_gfs211.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 25583108 Jan 8 22:15 2007010900_gfs213.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 84425732 Jan 8 22:37 2007010900_gfs225.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 417772548 Jan 8 22:40 2007010900_gfs255.gem -rw-rw-r-- 1 zmfritz student 51909124 Jan 8 21:51 2007010900_thin.gemAll of these fancy files appear in my $GEMDATA/model/gfs after being processed by GEMPAK5.9.4
Wow, that GFS255 file is big. "What's inside it?" I wondered. So I fire up 'gdinfo'
GRID FILE: 2007010900_gfs255.gem
GRID NAVIGATION:
PROJECTION: STR
ANGLES: 90.0 -105.0 0.0
GRID SIZE: 65 65
LL CORNER: -20.83 -150.00
UR CORNER: -20.83 30.00
Hmmm, those corners look strange for latitude. So I poke at Garp_defaults
and datatype.tbl to attempt to get it in Garp. Ewwww, garp no likey
either.
So I wonder how the gfs255 file came to be. Ah, yes. dcgrib2 on my LDM box with this entry:
HRS|NGRID ^.*
PIPE dcgrib2 -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib2.log
-e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/nawips/gempak/tables
oooo, a log file! Looking at it, I see lots of messages like this.
[32020] 070109/1146[DECODE_GRIB2 -4] TMPK [070109/1200F066] 60:30 PDLY 137
102
[32020] 070109/1146[DCGRIB 1] Grid navigation 137.000000 102.000000 CED
incompatible with file data/gempak/model/gfs/2007010912_gfs255.
So I wonder some more :) I then asked The Google and he had very few hits on "GFS 255". Anybody cure my puzzlement?
daryl
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