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Steve, Thanks for the response . . . in doing a debug, it appeared to have something to do with the file size. I like your idea of breaking out into individual hour files, and will copy and do likewise. My Eta 218's are the whole thing in one file for the entire run - including all data, not just the DVB-S. Stonie On Wednesday 08 September 2004 19:30, Unidata Support wrote: > Stonie, > > I do not have a problem with a precip loop through f084 ETA218 here. > I am storing the ETA 218 as individual forecast hour files, eg > using the fFFF naming. Gdinfo shows all the expected fields, > and the nmap2 restore functions as well as gdcntr/gdplot2 > find the forecast fields at 3 hour intervals. I am decoding the > ETA218 from grib2 on dvbs for input. > > If you are finding missing frames in the plot, check the gdinfo > listing to verify that all the source grids needed exist. > > Steve Chiswell > Unidata User Support > > >From: Stonie Cooper <address@hidden> > >Organization: Planetary Data, Incorporated > >Keywords: 200408162219.i7GMJ2aW009111 > > > >Steve, > > > >If I put a file up on a server for you to access . . . would that be > > desirable > > > >for you to look at? I compressed, via bzip2, this mornings run . . . it's > > at 84MB. > > > >Stonie > > > >On Monday 16 August 2004 22:10, Unidata Support wrote: > >> Nope. The grib2 data currently is being stored using grib1 packing. > >> > >> Steve Chiswell > >> > >> >From: Stonie Cooper <address@hidden> > >> >Organization: Planetary Data, Incorporated > >> >Keywords: 200408161901.i7GJ1paW018289 > >> > > >> >Steve, > >> > > >> >Before I get too far with this . . . I realized my decoding machine is > >> > running > >> > > >> >the latest GEMPAK, but my display box is on 5.6.m. If the GRIB2 > >> > messages are decoded, does the gd* programs also need to be GRIB2 > >> > aware? > >> > > >> >Stonie > >> > > >> >On Friday 13 August 2004 22:50, Steve Chiswell wrote: > >> >> Stonie, > >> >> > >> >> It looks like something is missing. > >> >> Are you tracking and missing packets on the DVB-S? > >> >> > >> >> I'd have to see your GDLIST poutput to know if the grids > >> >> exist in your file. > >> >> > >> >> Steve > >> >> > >> >> On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 16:45, Stonie Cooper wrote: > >> >> > Steve, > >> >> > > >> >> > Ingesting all the new DVB-S data - from both streams - along with > >> >> > other NOAAPort data, and seeing something new when I attempt to > >> >> > display Eta218 data (See attached). > >> >> > > >> >> > Any ideas? > >> > > >> >-- > >> >Stonie R. Cooper > >> >Planetary Data, Incorporated > >> >(402) 727-6599 > >> > >> -- > >> ************************************************************************ > >>*** * < Unidata User Support UCAR > >> Unidata Program < (303)497-8643 > >> P.O. Box 3000 < address@hidden > >> Boulder, CO 80307 < > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>--- - < Unidata WWW Service > >> http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support < > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >>--- - < NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded > >> in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically > >> available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions > >> made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send > >> to us. > > > >-- > >Stonie R. Cooper > >Planetary Data, Incorporated > >(402) 727-6599 > > -- > *************************************************************************** >* < Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata > Program < (303)497-8643 > P.O. Box 3000 < address@hidden > Boulder, CO 80307 < > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- < Unidata WWW Service > http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support < > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >- < NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the > Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available > through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made > available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. -- Stonie R. Cooper Planetary Data, Incorporated (402) 727-6599