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Nov. 25th, 2004 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krazykitkatNote to self:
When wgrib doesn't work, check whether the name of the file you're trying to wgrib is too long.
Only after you've shortened the filename and it still doesn't work should you panic and consider leaving the country or possibly reading the instruction manual...
Thank goodness shortening the filename worked, though there was some panic when it was telling me the data was 6 hour averaged when I wanted the monthly mean, but re-wgribbed a past file and that's what the code is supposed to say :wipes brow:
And for the first time just read what the fields in the inventory mean (I could work out most of them) and the mean (the average type) is now clear in my head (it's just telling you that it's a monthly mean of the 6 hour averaged data).
And possibly even the computer people are scratching their heads now.
wgrib is a program to read grib (format used to store binary data) files that were created by the NMC/NCAR Reanalysis Project (the atmospheric data I used for my thesis and papers).
And I'm just having a giggle at this:
usage: wgrib [grib file] [options]
options:
-v verbose
-V even more verbose
***
And I have Mulan on dvd!!! I so love that movie.
Need to track down the Gone with the Wind special edition.
And mum went to the Met Bureau in Sydney yesterday and bought me the book Drought, Dust and Deluge: A Century of Climate Extremes in Australia. I sent down to Melbourne for it a couple of months ago, but the envelope and cheque got damaged in the mail so they had to send it back.
Some great photos and history.
Early 25 July 1986 there was snow in much of Tasmania (some of the heaviest falls on record), Hobart was isolated due to road closures until noon, snow fell in Melbourne and many suburbs, and melting snow (melted on contact with the ground) occurred in metropolitan Sydney. I remember that, was in high school and there was snow falling as dad drove me to school. Quite an event.
When wgrib doesn't work, check whether the name of the file you're trying to wgrib is too long.
Only after you've shortened the filename and it still doesn't work should you panic and consider leaving the country or possibly reading the instruction manual...
Thank goodness shortening the filename worked, though there was some panic when it was telling me the data was 6 hour averaged when I wanted the monthly mean, but re-wgribbed a past file and that's what the code is supposed to say :wipes brow:
And for the first time just read what the fields in the inventory mean (I could work out most of them) and the mean (the average type) is now clear in my head (it's just telling you that it's a monthly mean of the 6 hour averaged data).
And possibly even the computer people are scratching their heads now.
wgrib is a program to read grib (format used to store binary data) files that were created by the NMC/NCAR Reanalysis Project (the atmospheric data I used for my thesis and papers).
And I'm just having a giggle at this:
usage: wgrib [grib file] [options]
options:
-v verbose
-V even more verbose
***
And I have Mulan on dvd!!! I so love that movie.
Need to track down the Gone with the Wind special edition.
And mum went to the Met Bureau in Sydney yesterday and bought me the book Drought, Dust and Deluge: A Century of Climate Extremes in Australia. I sent down to Melbourne for it a couple of months ago, but the envelope and cheque got damaged in the mail so they had to send it back.
Some great photos and history.
Early 25 July 1986 there was snow in much of Tasmania (some of the heaviest falls on record), Hobart was isolated due to road closures until noon, snow fell in Melbourne and many suburbs, and melting snow (melted on contact with the ground) occurred in metropolitan Sydney. I remember that, was in high school and there was snow falling as dad drove me to school. Quite an event.
