Re: Problems reading GRIB2 files

Samuel,

Sorry for the obvious questions, but, have you made sure
/data2/share/ncarg/lib really IS $NCARG_ROOT, or is it something more like,
/data2/share/ncl/lib/ncarg

Also, what are the permissions on reading $NCARG_ROOT ?

gerry

Leung Samuel wrote:
> Hi NCL Team,
>
> This is the first time I use NCL to read GRIB2 files and I got problems
> when doing that. It seems that ncl is looking for a "codetable
> directory" and the following is the output of reading that GRIB2 file
>
> Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1-alpha
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> fatal: NclGRIB2: codetable directory
> "/data2/share/ncarg/lib/ncarg/grib2_codetables" invalid
> fatal:Could not open (myfile.grb2)
>
> (/data2/share/ncarg/ is the $NCARG_ROOT in my computer)
>
> And this error makes the ncl cannot continue. Does it mean I have to
> download a codetable from somewhere else before reading the GRIB2 file?
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Samuel Leung
>
>
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