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Peter,, Happy Holidays to you too. I attached a file with the gribtonc fron our ldm. Hope this helps. Robb... On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >From: Peter Neilley <address@hidden> > >Subject: [Fwd: Example pqact using gribtonc] > >Organization: NCAR/RAP > >Keywords: 200012221755.eBMHtXo22187 > > Happy Holidays! > > I sent the following message to the LDM users mail group, but received no > responses. I wonder > if you can help me. I searched the Unidata web pages/support archives and > could not find what > I'm after. > > Any help appreciated. > > Peter Neilley > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > We are (finally) going to start decoding the grib data into netcdf. Could > someone send > me an example pqact.conf file which matches the correct WMO headers with the > correct > .cdl files for the NCEP models? Thanks. > > Peter > > > > -- > Dr. Peter P. Neilley > Research Applications Program > National Center for Atmospheric Research > 3450 Mitchell Lane > PO Box 3000 > Boulder, CO 80307-3000 > (303) 497-8446 > address@hidden > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================
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# NMC and ECMWF GRIB products (decoded by gribtonc):
# AVN model on global 5.0 x 2.5 degree grids
HRS ^H.[A-D]... KWB. (..)(..).*/mAVN
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/avn-a.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_avn-a.nc
# AVN model on Lambert conformal CONUS grid
HRS ^Y.Q... KWB. (..)(..).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/avn-q.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_avn-q.nc
# AVN model on thinned grids, interpolated to global 5.0 x 2.5 regular grid
HRS ^H.[I-P]... KWB. (..)(..).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
-q "lin,dlat=2.5,dlon=5.0" etc/avn-x.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_avn-x.nc
# raw data for AVN model on thinned grids
HRS ^H.[I-P]... KWB. (..)(..).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN)
FILE
data/rawfiles/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_avn-x.wmo
# ECMWF model on global 2.5 x 2.5 degree grid
# changed because ecmf increases model number for every model modification
# HRS ^H.[A-L]... ECMF (..)(..).*(/m13[12]|/mECMF)
HRS ^H.[A-L]... ECMF (..)(..)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/ecmf.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_ecmf.nc
# ETA model on Lambert conformal CONUS grid
HRS ^Y.Q... KWB. (..)(..).*/mETA
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/eta.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_eta.nc
# MRF model on global 5.0 x 2.5 degree grids
HRS ^H.[A-D]... .... (..)(..).*/m(SPEC62MRF|MRF)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/mrf-a.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_mrf-a.nc
# raw data for MRF model on global 5.0 x 2.5 degree grids
HRS ^H.[A-D]... .... (..)(..).*/m(SPEC62MRF|MRF)
FILE
data/rawfiles/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_mrf-a.wmo
# MRF model on global 5.0 x 5.0 degree grid
HRS ^H.[EF]... KWBC (..)(..)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/mrf-e.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_mrf-e.nc
# NGM model on US staggered grid
HRS ^H.G... KWB. (..)(..).*(/mNGM|/mROI)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/ngm-g.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_ngm-g.nc
# NGM model on Lambert conformal CONUS grid
HRS ^Y.Q... KWB. (..)(..).*/mNGM
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/ngm-q.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_ngm-q.nc
# NOW and PWAV models on global 5.0 x 2.5 degree grids
HRS ^H.[A-D]... .... (..)(..).*(/mNOW|/mPWAV)
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/ocean.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_ocean.nc
# RUC model on Lambert conformal CONUS grid
HRS ^[YZ].Q... KWB. (..)(..).*/mRUC
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/ruc.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_ruc.nc
# RUC2 model on Lambert conformal CONUS grid
#NMC2 (nggrib|pggrib|sgrib)/ruc2a.(......)/ruc2.T(..)Z
# PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
# etc/ruc2.cdl
# data/GRIB/\2\3_ruc2.nc
#
# SNO model on northern hemisphere 2.0 x 2.0 degree grid
HRS ^H.[TU]... .... (..)(..).*/mSNO
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/sno.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_sno.nc
# SST model on global 5.0 x 2.5 degree grids
HRS ^H.[A-D]... .... (..)(..).*/mSST
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/sst-a.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_sst-a.nc
# SST model on global 2.0 x 2.0 degree grid
HRS ^H.[T-W]... .... (..)(..).*/mSST
PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc
etc/sst-t.cdl
data/GRIB/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2_sst-t.nc