Re: NMAP Loops (#1562)

Charley,

Check your "GDINFO" listing of your decoded file. Your statement about
the "first" time period being missing may indicate that the source of
your grids changed from using the PDS identifier for F000 to an analysis
time . The Jan 22 time frame is coincident with changes in the mainframe
at NWS. If that is the case,
try upgrading to 5.9.4.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:29 -0800, Charley Knoderer wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> We are having a very strange problem with NMAP not reading the decoded
> grib files correctly.  Gempak seems to be reading them for the maps I
> create, with the exception of the first time period. However the loops
> are not loading.  
>  
> This problem first appeared between 12 Z January 22 and 00 Z January
> 23.  We have not made any changes to the decoding process (we use
> nagrib to decode the grib files) before or after this date.  This
> problem is apparent on using NMAP 5.7.3 and 5.9.3.
>  
> Here's the script we are using:
>  
> #!/bin/csh  
> #
> #  CONVERT_GEMPAK.csh
> #
> #  This is a simple script to write model GRIB data to a GEMPAK
> #  file using the NAGRIB program found in the NAWIPS distribution.
> #
> ########################################################################
>  
> #  BEGIN THE SCRIPT
>  
> #  Check to see if the user has the NAWIPS environmental variables
> set.
> #  Uncomment out the following line if NAWIPS is not included in the
> #  users environment.
> #
> #  setenv NAWIPS /usr1/nawips
> if ( $?NAWIPS ) then
>    source $NAWIPS/Nawips.cshrc
> else
>    echo "WARNING: Please Define the location of the NAWIPS
> distribution at the top"
>    echo "         of ${GMASTER_BIN}/convert_gempak and rerun the
> script. - EXIT"
>    exit 1
> endif
>  
> set YYMMDDHH = $1
> set MODEL    = $2
> set SUFFX    = $3
>  
> if ( ! -e ${GRIB_PATH}/.local_gribs || -z ${GRIB_PATH}/.local_gribs )
> then
>    echo " "
>    echo "   ERROR: No grib files found - EXIT"
>    echo " "
>    exit 1
> endif
>  
> set GRIBS = `cat ${GRIB_PATH}/.local_gribs`
>  
> set GEMFILE = ${YYMMDDHH}_${MODEL}_${SUFFX}.gem
>  
> if ( ! -e ${GEM_PATH} ) mkdir -p ${GEM_PATH}
>  
> echo "  CONVERT: Creating GEMPAK file ${GEM_PATH}/${GEMFILE}"
>  
> if ( -e gemfile ) rm -f gemfile
>  
> echo "INDXFL   =           "  > gemfile
> echo "GDOUTF   = ${GEM_PATH}/${GEMFILE}" >> gemfile
> echo "PROJ     =           " >> gemfile
> echo "GRDAREA  =           " >> gemfile
> echo "KXKY     =           " >> gemfile
> echo "MAXGRD   = 29999     " >> gemfile
> echo "CPYFIL   = GDS       " >> gemfile
> echo "GAREA    =           " >> gemfile
> echo "OUTPUT   = F/${GEM_PATH}/nagrib.fil" >> gemfile
> echo "GBTBLS   =           " >> gemfile
> echo "GBDIAG   =           " >> gemfile
>  
> foreach GRIB ($GRIBS)
>    echo "GBFILE   = ${GRIB_PATH}/${GRIB}" >> gemfile
>    echo "run               " >> gemfile
>    echo "                  " >> gemfile
> end
>  
> echo "exit"                  >> gemfile
>  
> $GEMEXE/nagrib < gemfile >& /dev/null
> $GEMEXE/gpend            >& /dev/null
>  
> rm -f gemfile *.nts >& /dev/null
>  
> #  End of the Show
> exit 0
>  
> Anyone have any ideas?
>  
> Thanks,
> Charley
>  
> Charley Knoderer
> Meteorologist II
> Sonoma Technology, Inc.
> 1360 Redwood Way, Suite C
> Petaluma, CA  94954
> http://www.sonomatech.com
> Phone: (707) 665-9900
> Fax: (707) 665-9800
>  
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Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
Unidata