Hi,
NCL's GRIB reading code was updated on 10/8/2003 to eliminate any PDS
size limitation. You should not have this problem with the most recent
version of NCL.
-dave
On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Mary Haley wrote:
>
> > I need to read GRIB files that have PDS lengths of 88 bytes. NCL cannot read
> > them, giving a "Corrupted record" error message. wgrib can read the files.
> > NCL can also read the files if I reduce the PDS length to 80 bytes or less.
> > Can NCL be modified to handle longer PDS sections? The GRIB spec allows the
> > PDS section to be quite long, 2^24-1. Thank you.
> >
> > Richard Carpenter
> >
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> There have been lots of updates made to the GRIB reader in NCL this
> year. If your version of NCL is version 4.2.0.a027 or older, then you
> may not have access to these updates, some of which might solve the
> above problem. (The NCL version number is echoed every time you run
> NCL.)
>
> If you are running the latest version of NCL and yet still having
> problems, then if you can email me the GRIB file, or put it on an
> anonymous ftp/web site, then we will be happy to take a look at it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Mary
>
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