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Glenn, You have a couple of options for how you deal with nmap and your eta212 and eta215 grids. Currently, I use the keys eta, eta212 and eta215 in the mod_res.tbl file. Each of these have their template defined in the $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl file, defaults I provide are: ETA YYYYMMDDHH_eta211.gem ETA212 YYYYMMDDHH_eta212.gem ETA215 YYYYMMDDHH_eta215.gem If you want the eta212 and eta215 keys to be used with the mod_res.tbl actions that currently only have eta, then you can just add the additional keys to the list, eg: 50mb_HGHT_WIND $NMAP_RESTORE/stnd/50mb_hght_wind 1.standard avn;eta;eta212;eta215 this is pretty easy in "vi" for example using the global search. Or, if you don't deal with the eta211 grids at all, and would prefer that the key "eta" meant the 212 grid, then you could change that in the template file, eg: ETA YYYYMMDDHH_eta212.gem As for the pqact.conf entry and your missing the 30-60 hour grids, the default maximum number of grids in a grid file from dcgrib is 1500. There are more than 1500 eta212 and 211 grids, so you need to add the "-m numgrids" flag to your pqact.conf entry, where numgrids is large enough to store the complete model run. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200012011632.eB1GWio05362 > > >Steve, >I'm wondering what is the best way to get my grids to function in nmap. >Currently the file >/gempak/tables/nmap/mod_res.tbl > >has the eta listed as the data source. My pattern actions pipe eta212 and >215. Should I rename the pqact assignment to eta to match the mod_res.tbl >file (make my files eta) or change the mod_res.tbl file to match the >patterns provided in the pqact (i.e., make mod_res.tbl models eta212? ). > >Also, in my griblogs I'm getting: >Dec 01 15:08:43 dcgrib[28479]: Error writing grid data: -11 >Dec 01 15:08:43 dcgrib[28479]: header not found skipped 001201/1200 > Grid ID 212 66 1 0 0 >Dec 01 15:14:17 dcgrib[28479]: Error writing grid data: -11 >Dec 01 15:14:17 dcgrib[28479]: header not found skipped 001201/1200 > Grid ID 212 15 105 0 2 >Dec 01 15:14:18 dcgrib[28479]: Error writing grid data: -11 >Dec 01 15:14:18 dcgrib[28479]: @^L skipped 001201/1200 Grid ID 212 > 16 105 0 2 > > >Finally, I've lost eta grids between 30HR to the 60HR period. Any thoughts > why? I think this all occured when I placed 5.6/nmap on-line. Here's my > pqacr entry: >WMO ^NOAAPORT\.NWSTG\.GRID\.[YZ].[RU].[0-9][0-9]\.KWB[DE]\..* > PIPE /npfos/noaaport/nawips/bin/sol/dcgrib -d >/npraid/noaaport/nawips/logs/%Y%m%d_dcgrib.log > -g /npfos/noaaport/nawips/gempak/tables/grid > PACK /npfos/noaaport/nawipsdata/hds/YYYYMMDDHH_eta@@@.gem > >Thx, Glenn > >