Re: WRF grib2 data

• To: Anthony P Praino <apraino@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: WRF grib2 data
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 15:53:14 -0600

Hi Anthony-

Anthony P Praino wrote:

I assume this may be a newbie question but I have checked the user manual, tutorial and scanned archives but have not run across an answer.

Well, you didn't miss anything.  It's just not there.

How does

one 'catalog' or group gridded data files together. I am trying to create animation sequences of WRF gridded fields from a locally run model. When I use the data chooser to select a group of WRF output files which are timestepped files (either netCDF or grib2), I cannot group them in order to create a display based upon a selected field of multiple times.

The nightly release of the IDV allows you to aggregate WRF

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/idv/release/nightly

From disk, use the file chooser and set the Datasource Type to be
"Aggregated Grid files".   This will not work with the WRF netCDF files.

manually and read that in.  For information on creating NcML files for
aggregation, see:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/ncml/v2.2/Aggregation.html

The NcML that the Aggregated Grid Data uses looks something like:

<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation type="joinExisting" dimName="time">
<netcdf location="file:/I:/rtmodel/07051012_nmm_alt1.GrbF000" />
<netcdf location="file:/I:/rtmodel/07051012_nmm_alt1.GrbF001" />
<netcdf location="file:/I:/rtmodel/07051012_nmm_alt1.GrbF002" />
</aggregation>
</netcdf>

This is still not in the documentation, though. ;-)

I have

tried this with cataloged data sources and it works fine (what are the details of gridded catalog sources such as NCEP NAM 12km).

This has all timesteps in one file.

I have also

tried to manually create a display out for each time which I can see in the dashboard but the display visual does not change even though the files appear to be sequencing. Any help of pointers to such information is appreciated.

If there is only one time associated with the data, it gets shown on all

We hope to make a full release of version 2.2 on Monday.

Don
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