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>From: "Glenn Rutledge" <address@hidden> >Organization: NCDC >Keywords: 200408101322.i7ADM9aW000601 IDV GRIB Hi Glenn- First a request. If you can, please send your messages in plain text. Our support mail reader doesn't support HTML which makes it difficult to read your messages. Thanks. Now on to your question(s). >Still having a problem with teh 3d fileds. The data >is at ftp://www.baronams.com/scratch/asims/O3_3D_G1.200317512.grb >but not for much longer. I can plot up the data as 2d fields but >isosfc's are not avbl to me via idv. Thanks !! > >This might help- I ran the grib thru the Wgrib utility: >rec 1:0:date 2003062412 O3MR kpds5=154 kpds6=241 kpds7=998 levels=(3,230) >grid=255 anl: >O3MR=Ozone mixing ratio [kg/kg] >timerange 10 P1 0 P2 0 TimeU nx 63 ny 67 GDS grid 3 num_in_ave 0 missing 0 >center 7 subcenter 255 process 84 Table 2 <br> >Lambert Conf: Lat1 24.666000 Lon1 -102.820000 Lov -100.000000 >Latin1 30.000000 Latin2 60.000000 LatSP 0.00000 0 LonSP 0.000000 >North Pole (63 x 67) Dx 45.000000 Dy 45.000000 scan 64 >min/max data 7.63575e-10 8.97049e-08 num bits 8 BDS_Ref 7.63575e-10 i >DecScale 0 BinScale -31 > >rec 2:4314:date 2003062412 O3MR kpds5=154 kpds6=241 kpds7=992 levels=(3,224) >grid=255 anl: <br> Since IDV can't read GRIB directly, do you have a GDS URL that I could point to? Can you figure out what units are being returned for the vertical level? Also, what version of the IDV are you using (check the Help->About... dialog). It may be that the version you have does not have the fix for units of "mb" as a vertical level. Don 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.