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Hmmm... 73x144 doesn't sound very big at all. I was thinking more like greater than 100,000 grid points. Strange, Steve >From: Chris Hennon <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200206191555.g5JFt2614031 >Steve - > >First I tried to sub vecr(urel,vrel) in for wnd and got the same problem. >Since I have quite a few scripts that are having this issue I decided to >up the memory in GEMPRM.PRM (I doubled it) and recompile. Now all the >scripts seem to be performing normally. I am working with >global reanalysis data so I did have quite a big grid (73 x 144). Thanks >for your help. > >Chris > > >On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Unidata Support wrote: > >> >> Chris, >> >> Sounds like you are having trouble composing WND from the components). >> Not sure why without seeing what your grid navigation and size is since >> the function you show works for me using current ETA data. >> >> Could be a problem with the stack size. Are these big grids (kxky)? >> If so, it could be that you don't have enough memory to load in >> all the grids (remember that you probably have a conversion from >> dwpc=sub(dwpk,273.15) and vecr(urel,vrel), before the mixr() computation >> and the resulting output grid. >> >> Presumably you have UREL and VREL at 925mb. What happens if you >> try using sdiv(mixr(dwpc,pres),vecr(urel,vrel))? >> >> If the result works with smaller grids, then you may have to >> do the computation in smaller pieces using gddiag. >> >> Similarly, your tmpc calculation is also undergoing a tmpc=tmpk-273.15. >> >> Otherwise, we'd have to recompile with a bigger heap defined for >> LLMDGG in $GEMPAK/include/GEMPRM.PRM >> >> >> Steve Chiswell >> >> >> >From: Chris Hennon <address@hidden> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >Keywords: 200206182105.g5IL5L617501 >> >> >Steve - >> > >> >Can you tell me why these arguments: >> > >> >gddiag << EOF >> > GDFILE = /home/chennon/data/grib/mdivrepo_1998.grd >> > GDOUTF = /home/chennon/data/grib/mdiv_1998.grd >> > GFUNC = sdiv(mixr(dwpc,pres),wnd) >> > GDATTIM = 980501/0000 >> > GLEVEL = 925 >> > GVCORD = PRES >> > GRDNAM = MDIV >> > GPACK = >> >r >> > >> >e >> >EOF >> > >> >produce this error: >> > >> >[DG -7] Input grid WND ^980501/0000 @925 %PRES in SDIV cannot be found. >> > >> >I also have this problem when I try to add three scalar fields, for >> >example: >> > >> >add(add(tmpc+1,tmpc+2),tmpc+3) >> > >> >All grids that I need to compute moisture convergence exist in the >> >mdivrepo grid file. It isn't liking the nesting for some reason - I have >> >used this technique successfully in the past. I'm using version >> >5.6.e.1. Thanks. >> > >> >Chris >> > >> >================================================ >> >| Chris Hennon Ohio State University | >> >| Tropical Meteorology address@hidden | >> >| | >> >| Dept of Geography Office: 1155 Derby Hall | >> >| 1036 Derby Hall Phone : (614) 292-2704 | >> >| Columbus, OH 43210 Fax : (614) 292-6213 | >> >================================================ >> > >> >> **************************************************************************** >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >> (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ >> **************************************************************************** >> >