Solved.
My confusion was that I didn't recognize that these were map
projections. (That's the problem when things run perfectly well for
weeks and months and even years -- you forget what it is actually
doing!) I replaced the RUC configuration with this and it seems to work:
---
NCEP:/pub/data/nccf/com/rap/prod/rap.YYMD/rap.tCCz.awp236pgrbfFF.grib2
TOC:/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/MT.rap_CY.CC/RD.YYMD/PT.grid_DF.gr2/fh.00FF_tl.
press_gr.us40km
---
David
>I'm still running gribmaster4.2 (and GEMPAK 5.11.1: works fine -- so
>no changing!) and need to update the configuration file from the old
>RUC2 to the new RAP.
>
>The lines in the config file are:
>
>NCEP:/pub/data/nccf/com/ruc/prod/ruc2a.YYMD/ruc2.tCCz.pgrbfFF.grib2
>TOC:/SL.us008001/ST.opnl/MT.ruc_CY.CC/RD.YYMD/PT.grid_DF.gr2/fh.00FF_tl
.press_gr.us40km
>
>Focusing on the NCEP, I see that the "rap" directory contains a couple
>of file naming possibilities:
>
>ftp> pwd
>Remote directory: /pub/data/nccf/com/rap/prod/rap.20120527
>
>ftp> dir rap.t15z.*f00.grib2
>200 PORT command successful
>150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 23596515 May 27 15:51
rap.t15z.awip32f00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 30639932 May 27 15:50
rap.t15z.awp130bgrbf00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 12221559 May 27 15:49
rap.t15z.awp130pgrbf00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 1597874 May 27 15:52
rap.t15z.awp200f00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 2584871 May 27 15:49
rap.t15z.awp236pgrbf00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 45997265 May 27 15:51
rap.t15z.awp242f00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 16220841 May 27 15:50
rap.t15z.awp252bgrbf00.grib2
>-rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 6903462 May 27 15:49
rap.t15z.awp252pgrbf00.grib2
>
>
>It's not obvious what the differences are in the various files.
>Which file(s) should I be using in the configuration file?
>
>Thanks,
>
>David Blanchard
>
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