Re: 20031229: netCDF Decoders - Redhat 8.0

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Teresa Van Hove wrote:

> Robb,
>
> Thanks so much for the help.  However the /pub directory I'm trying
> to write to has 970 Gbytes free and the netcdf files I'm trying to
> duplicate or possibly replace with 1x1 deg for 1.25x1.25 deg are 5
> Mbytes each so there should be plenty of room.
>
> How does one run gribtonc on command line?  I'm being dense here,
> but trying to cat individual HHxxxx files into gribtonc gives a
> segmentation fault and  I cant think how else the PIPE would work on
> command line.
>
> ie I'm trying to go
> cat HHMA40 | /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc -v HHMA40 -q
> "lin,dlat=1.25,dlon=1.25"
> /usr/local/ldm/decoders/cdls/avn-1.25x1.25.cdl test_nc

Teresa,

Maybe something else is going wrong.  Here's the command line I use that
sends the errors to the screen, then we can see what's wrong.

% /usr/local/ldm/decoders/gribtonc -v -l - -q "lin,dlat=1.25,dlon=1.25" \
/usr/local/ldm/decoders/cdls/avn-1.25x1.25.cdl test.nc < HHMA40


Robb...
>
> trying to use <HHMA40 on the end of the gribtonc doesn't work either
>
>
> Robb Kambic wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Unidata Support wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Teresa,
> >
> > The write error is usually the result of not enough disk space to write
> > the data to the netcdf file.  Since the gribtonc allocates all the space
> > for the next record at one time, the original netcdf file will be created
> > but the data cannot be entered because of space limitations.  I would run
> > gribtonc from the command line from the ldm home dir as user ldm. A good
> > rule of thumb is that the netcdf file is 8-10 larger then the original
> > grib files.  So a 8meg file ends up to be 80 mgs netcdf, this is the
> > biggest drawback of netcdf.
> >
> > Robb...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Teresa Van Hove
> Associate Scientist GST/UCAR
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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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