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>From: Don Murray <address@hidden> >Organization: Unidata/UCAR >Keywords: 200107052225.f65MPi119715 McIDAS GRDCOPY Don,e >Is there a way to do a GRDCOPY on the ETA grids and specify only the 211 >grids (63 rows x 93 cols)? I want to make a subset that I can play >with here next week, once I don't have a network connection. If not, >I'll just ask for a smaller dataset. There is not really a way to copy just the 211 grids, at least not easily. One can specify the GPRO=LAMB keyword, but will get all of the other LAMBert Conformal projections also. I just did a quick GRDLIST of RTGRIDS/ETA from papagayo.unl.edu and see that at least the first 100 grids are all 211 ones: GRDLIST RTGRIDS/ETA FORM=ALL GPRO=LAMB NUM=100 Dataset position 6 Directory Title= ALL 00Z ETA 0 HR<=VT<=24 HR PAR LEVEL DAY TIME SRC FHOUR FDAY FTIME GRID PRO ---- --------- ------------ -------- ---- ----- ------------ -------- ----- ---- W 100 MB 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 ETA 0 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 1 LAMB Total pts= 6045 Num rows= 65 Num columns= 93 received: 2001186 020448Z Vertical velocity GRIB ID numbers: Geographic =211; PAR = 39; Model ID = 84; Level type =100 Units of gridded variable are PAPS Scale of variable is: 2 Lambert Conformal Tangent Cone Projection Row num of pole= -113.34 Col num of pole= 53.00 Col spacing (m)= 81270.0 Standard Latitudes= 25.00 25.00 Standard Longitude= 95.00 PAR LEVEL DAY TIME SRC FHOUR FDAY FTIME GRID PRO ---- --------- ------------ -------- ---- ----- ------------ -------- ----- ---- W 200 MB 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 ETA 0 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 2 LAMB Total pts= 6045 Num rows= 65 Num columns= 93 received: 2001186 020448Z Vertical velocity GRIB ID numbers: Geographic =211; PAR = 39; Model ID = 84; Level type =100 Units of gridded variable are PAPS Scale of variable is: 2 Lambert Conformal Tangent Cone Projection Row num of pole= -113.34 Col num of pole= 53.00 Col spacing (m)= 81270.0 Standard Latitudes= 25.00 25.00 Standard Longitude= 95.00 ... PAR LEVEL DAY TIME SRC FHOUR FDAY FTIME GRID PRO ---- --------- ------------ -------- ---- ----- ------------ -------- ----- ---- T 850 MB 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 ETA 0 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 99 LAMB Total pts= 6045 Num rows= 65 Num columns= 93 received: 2001186 020509Z Temperature GRIB ID numbers: Geographic =211; PAR = 11; Model ID = 84; Level type =100 Units of gridded variable are K Scale of variable is: 2 Lambert Conformal Tangent Cone Projection Row num of pole= -113.34 Col num of pole= 53.00 Col spacing (m)= 81270.0 Standard Latitudes= 25.00 25.00 Standard Longitude= 95.00 PAR LEVEL DAY TIME SRC FHOUR FDAY FTIME GRID PRO ---- --------- ------------ -------- ---- ----- ------------ -------- ----- ---- Z 900 MB 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 ETA 0 05 JUL 01186 00:00:00 100 LAMB Total pts= 6045 Num rows= 65 Num columns= 93 received: 2001186 020509Z Geopotential height GRIB ID numbers: Geographic =211; PAR = 7; Model ID = 84; Level type =100 Units of gridded variable are GPM Scale of variable is: 2 Lambert Conformal Tangent Cone Projection Row num of pole= -113.34 Col num of pole= 53.00 Col spacing (m)= 81270.0 Standard Latitudes= 25.00 25.00 Standard Longitude= 95.00 Number of grids listed = 100 GRDLIST - done Since the long listing (FORM=ALL) from GRDLIST tells us what the grid is, it would be possible to capture the geographic ID for each grid into a file (DEV=T fname) and then parse the file to see which grid numbers in the GRID file are the ones desired. You could then do the GRDCOPY explicitly specifying the grid number as in: GRDCOPY RTGRIDS/ETA MYDATA/GRIDS.1234 GPRO=LAMB GRID=bgrid egrid This is, of course, McIDAS ugliness, but it works. Too bad you missed the 4th. The BBQ at Tammy & Mike's was fun, AND we could see the fireworks from Folsom from their back yard. Tom >From address@hidden Thu Jul 5 19:42:43 2001 >Subject: Re: 20010705: GRD commands Hi Tom- Thanks for the GRD feedback. I was hoping that I could use the GEO= keyword or something. I'll just cut back on the grids I ask for. Don