I have a grid that contains a 3-hr precip value made by subtracting the
previous 3-hr precip from the 6-hr precip, so it has two times. When I try to
write it out as a grib file using gdgrib, it always fails to find the grid, and
mis-identifies the gdattim I asked for.
GEMPAK-GDINFO>gdattim=f072:f069
GEMPAK-GDINFO>r
GRID FILE: 2015121706_gfshw.gem
GRID NAVIGATION:
PROJECTION: CED
ANGLES: 0.0 0.0 0.0
GRID SIZE: 720 361
LL CORNER: -90.00 0.00
UR CORNER: 90.00 -0.50
GRID ANALYSIS BLOCK:
ANALYSIS TYPE: BARNES
DELTAN: 1.000
DELTAX: -9999.000
DELTAY: -9999.000
GRID AREA: -90.00 -180.00 90.00 180.00
EXTEND AREA: -90.00 -180.00 90.00 180.00
DATA AREA: -90.00 -180.00 90.00 180.00
Number of grids in file: 1050
Maximum number of grids in file: 5000
NUM TIME1 TIME2 LEVL1 LEVL2 VCORD PARM
304 151217/0600F072 151217/0600F069 0 NONE C03M
Parameters requested: GDFILE,LSTALL,OUTPUT,GDATTIM,GLEVEL,GVCORD,GFUNC.
GEMPAK-GDINFO>ex
us-hou-intldm01:/data/gempak/model/gfs> gdgrib
GDFILE Grid file 2015121706_gfshw.gem
GFUNC Scalar grid c03m
GDATTIM Grid date/time f072:f069
GLEVEL Grid level 0
GVCORD Grid vertical coordinate none
GBTBLS Input GRIB decoding tables
GBFILE GRIB data file name /tmp/grib.grb
VERCEN PDS byte_4/byte_5/byte_6/byte_26
PDSVAL GRIB PDS grid identifier overrid
PRECSN Packing precision
WMOHDR WMO_ID/Origin_ID/DDHHMM
CPYFIL Grid file whose navigation is to 2015121612_gfshw.gem
PROJ Map projection/angles/margins|dr
GRDAREA Area covered by grid
KXKY Number of grid points in x;y
Parameters requested: GDFILE,GFUNC,GDATTIM,GLEVEL,GVCORD,GBTBLS,GBFILE,
VERCEN,PDSVAL,PRECSN,WMOHDR,CPYFIL,PROJ,GRDAREA,KXKY.
GEMPAK-GDGRIB>cpyfil=2015121706_gfshw.gem
GEMPAK-GDGRIB>r
Creating process: gplt for queue 1500938246
[GR 4] Invalid input for GPACK. Defaults being used.
[DG -7] Input grid C03M ^151217/0600F07215 @0 %NONE cannot be found.