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20030708: ETA212 decoding problem

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  • Subject: 20030708: ETA212 decoding problem
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 22:43:11 -0600 (MDT)
Brian,

The WMO reserved range of the table will remain the same (parameters 1-127),
as mentioned at: 
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/docs/on388/table2.html#TABLE129
so you can link $GEMTBL/grid/wmogrib2.tbl to wmogrib129.tbl.

While your at it, you can do  the same for wmogrib130.tbl which has alo appeared
in the logs.

The parameter numbers 128-255 are NCEP specific, and are given in
ncepgrib129.tbl and ncepgrib130.tbl (as referenced from the above URL).

Steve Chiswell

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Brian Bernard wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> I came across a problem today with decoding the ETA212 gribbed fields. As
> you may know, NCEP added additional fields to the ETA212 as of this morning.
> However, dcgrib2 requires an additional table "wmogrib129.tbl" in order to
> decode the fields beyond 00 hours.
>
> Here is a copy of the error from from dcgrib2.log.
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DC 3] Starting up. Version 5.6.j
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DCGRIB 0] Opened 2003070818_eta212.gem model:84
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DCGRIB 0] grid:212
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [NA -1] The table wmogrib129.tbl cannot be opened.
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [NA -1] The table wmogrib129.tbl cannot be opened.
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DCGRIB -51] can't open grib tables [NA -51], set GEMTBL
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DCGRIB 0] Closing 2003070818_eta212.gem
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DC 5] Normal termination.
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 565
>
> [3620] 030708/1944 [DC 6] Shutting down.
>
>
>
> Any ideas on where one can obtain this table. Also, I  obtained the ETA212
> gribbed fields via ftp from the tgftp site.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Brian Bernard
>