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Re: Problem finding udunits file

On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Tomislav Urban wrote:

> Hope this is the appropriate forum:
>
>
>
> I'm trying to run gribtonc to convert the LDM eta grib to NetCDF.  I am
> able to generate the cdl file as follows:
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>
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> [ldm@granger CRWR]$ gribtocdl -v narr.grb > narr.cdl
>
> Jan 19 16:09:40 gribtocdl[23916]: Starting Up
>
> Jan 19 16:09:40 gribtocdl[23916]: EOF on input
>
> Jan 19 16:09:40 gribtocdl[23916]: Exiting
>
> Jan 19 16:09:40 gribtocdl[23916]: 9 WMO msgs, 9 GRIBs decoded, 9 written
>
>
>
> However, when I try to create the NetCDF it seems to be having trouble
> finding something in udunits:
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>
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> [ldm@granger CRWR]$ gribtonc -v narr.cdl narr.nc < narr.grb
>
> fgets(): Is a directory
>
> udunits(3): Error occurred at line 1
>
> udunits(3): Couldn't read units-file "/usr/local/udunits/udunits-1.11.7"
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>
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> My environment settings are as follows:
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>
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> export CPP_UDUNITS=-I/usr/local/udunits/udunits-1.11.7/include
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> export LD_UDUNITS='-L/usr/local/udunits/udunits-1.11.7/lib -ludunits'
>
> export UDUNITS_PATH='/usr/local/udunits/udunits-1.11.7'
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>
>
> There is indeed no file in /usr/local/udunits/udunits-1.11.7, rather it
> contains the udunits directories.
>
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>


Tomislav,

udunits is looking for udunits.dat file.  if you set UDUNITS_PATH to the
file location it will solve the problem. ie

% setenv UDUNITS_PATH ~ldm/etc/udunits.dat

details in url:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/decoders/msg00228.html&line=60#glimpse

robb...



>
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> -          Tomislav Urban
>
> -          Texas Advanced Computing Center
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>

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