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>From: Harry Edmon <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 200004181357.HAA10855 >What is your current suggested pqact.conf entries for gempak? > >-- >Dr. Harry Edmon E-MAIL: address@hidden >(206) 543-0547 FAX: (206) 543-0308 >Dept of Atmospheric Sciences >University of Washington, Box 351640, Seattle, WA 98195-1640 > Harry, The entries that match the default configuration for Garp are at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl For the NGM which you were having trouble with, # NGM model output # Grid #211 CONUS 80km: ^[YZ].Q.*/mNGM # Grid #207 Alaska 95km: ^[YZ].N.*/mNGM # Grid #202 CONUS 190km: ^[YZ].I.*/mNGM # Grid #213 CONUS 47.5km: ^[YZ].H.*/mNGM # Select any/all grids desired from [QNIH] HRS ^[YZ].[QNIH].*/mNGM PIPE /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcgrib -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables PACK data/gempak/hds/YYYYMMDDHH_ngm@@@.gem The @@@ template gets replaced by the grid id number so that the 4 different grid sets get written to unique file names (this was a PL12 addition). Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support