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Steve,
I have been trying to execute Gribtonc without much luck. I downloaded
an NGM grib file from the CPC web site and executed the following
command:
gribtonc ngm-g.cdl /data1/test.nc < /data1/ngm.T00Z.pgrb.f00
When I run the command a prompt immediately comes up indicating it did
nothing and test.nc was not created in the /data1 directory. I tried
also with the ngm-q.cdl file but to no avail. Any help would be great.
Robert,
I'm sure you build the netCDF distribution ? Therefore "ncgen" and
"ncdump" utilities are available. As user LDM try:
% ncgen -o /data1/test.nc ngm-g.cdl # should create test.nc
% ncdump /data1/test.nc # check the contents of test.nc
The ncgen and ncdump utilities need to be in the path for the LDM.
For sanity sake, check the /data1/ngm.T00Z.pgrb.f00 raw grib file by;
% gribdump /data1/ngm.T00Z.pgrb.f00 | more
Robb...
Thanks
Robert Boucher
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