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Hiya, Because of the following notice, the var P_msl in the ecmf.cdl has changed to P_msl_sfc. One can either make the change on your cdl file or get the modified one from the Unidata ftp directory. ie pub/decoders. Thanks, Robb... NOTIFICATION FROM ECMWF THAT THE CENTRE INCREASED THE RESOLUTION OF ITS GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC MODEL FROM TL319 TO TL511 ON TUESDAY, 21 NOVEMBER 2000. THIS IS ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT TO A REDUCTION FROM 60 KM TO 40 KM GRID SIZE. THE RESOLUTION OF THE DATA ASSIMILATION MINIMIZATION WAS INCREASED FROM T63 TO TL159 ON THE SAME DATE./ PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TYPE OF LEVEL IN SECTION 1 OF THE GRIB CODE IS NOW CODED AS 1 (WAS 102 PREVIOUSLY) / =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================