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Hello everyboby, I got around to looking into the problem I'm having with grib not downloading correctly with the Grib download utility and have found the following. I've only looked at the GF1004.dat file. What I found is that the ftp address was not complete or has changed since the code was writt...

All, I believe I have discovered what is causing the problems with the grib downloads within WINGRIDDS. And it's because of a capital "Z". Example from the NMB1124.DAT file: ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/nam/prod/nam.%1%2%3/nam.t%4 Z .awip3d03.tm00 nam.t%4Z.awip3d03.tm00 If you...

HELP! I'm not sure what to think about this but, it does seem to be an issue to me. Jeff, I think the problem I was having with grib2 files were related to the ftp program I use because I was able to get them to covert correctly this morning in NGRB2PCG32 without any problems when I used the grib do...

Jeff,

Boy...those NCEP folks are sneeky...hiding that in the backup directory where nobody would think to look.

Ya, except me. I will look high and low, far and wide to find grib data!

Kevin

Bob, You can change the AREA that you want to view by entering the following in the command line. AREA 60 90 43 = AREA is the command to set the center point of the map you want to view. Next is your latitude (60) and longitude (90) and display distance in degrees (43) will give you a view of most o...

Jeff, Screen res. set to 1024 x 768. I never change my screen res. Always the same. I'm not sure if it would change the refresh rate if I did change my screen res. This issue showed up BEFORE I had run and animation (?!). I believe that this issue is related to the fix in this release that addresses...

Jeff, While checking out the fix to the contour displays I minimized the WINGRIDDS window and when I clicked on the WINGRIDDS tab in the toolbar and the WINGRIDDS window came back up I got 2 command lines. The bottom one seems to be inoperable. I have found that if I hit the erase button the 2nd com...

Jeff,

Once again, you have delivered an excellent product. Great work on the documentation! Awesome. Thanks for all the fixes especially the darn :P memory leak in NGRB2PCG32.

Thank you, thank you, thank you...........................

Kevin

Jeff,

Thank you sir. You da man!

Kevin

Jeff,

Here is where I'm getting the NOGAPS grib from:

ftpprd.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf_backup/pub/data/model/grid/grib/nogaps

file names: nogaps_20061031##f***
##= 00(z) or 12(z) ***= forecast hour - see listing on ftp server for exact times.

Enjoy!

Kevin