20050713: Trouble Converting NCEP Reanalysis To Gempak

Matt,

The maximum number of grid times in a GEMPAK grid file is defined 
by LLMXGT at build time (in $GEMPAK/include/GEMPRM.PRM and
gemprm.h) by default as 1000. It sounds like your grids are every
6 hours (eg 4 per day), so you are hitting 1000 grid times at 
September 8.

Decode to monthly files rather than a single yearly file.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 12:13, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to convert Daily Global NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis for 2002-2004 to
> Gempak using files downloaded from ftp.cdc.noaa.gov.  I'm using a program
> that calls DCREANAL to do this.  The trouble is with the surface data.
> 
> The data for each year through September 7 is converted fine and it is
> useable.  But beginning September 8 of each year, I am not able to access
> the grids.  If I take one of the surface files (for instance, pmsl_02.gem
> has PMSL for each day/hour in 2002) and run GDINFO setting GDATTIM to any
> date prior to September 8 (i.e. GDATTIM = 020625/0000) it will return 1
> matching PMSL grid.  If I run it setting GDATTIM to September 8 or any
> later date (i.e. GDATTIM = 021015/0000) GDINFO returns "The time
> 021015/0000 is not found in the data set."  But then I can run GDINFO with
> GDATTIM = all, and will find that all the times/dates after September 8
> are indeed listed, but for some reason I can just no longer call them
> using GDATTIM.
> 
> Has anyone ever encountered such a problem or have any suggested
> troubleshooting tips?
> 
> -Matt