How to decode the gldas Noah data?

gldas data is in grib1 format. It contains data types that cannot be recognized by ncl_convert2nc. Thus, we can only extract variables using wgrib.

The gribtab table can be found in the Readme document.

swe: Noah vs. Ncep rean-2

large differences. Why?

ifort error

See my origin post http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.fortran/browse_thread/thread/a168181d1bd0481a?hl=en#.

I found these in Intel website.

Segmentation Violation with static link to libpthreads

Applications built with libpthreads.a statically linked, (libpthreads.a is used by default when -static is used), may fail with a segmentation violation on some versions of Linux when the applications use more than 2MB of stack space. This is a known limitation of Linuxthreads. If you encounter this problem, link libpthreads dynamically. As an alternative, on Red Hat Linux 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0, you can install the nptl-devel package and pass "-I/usr/include/nptl -L/usr/lib/nptl" on the ifort command line. This will create a statically-linked binary which will run under nptl only, but which does not have the stack size limitation.

ncl does not recognize gldas grib files

wgrib gives:

tianyf@tyf ~/gldas]$ wgrib -s GLDAS_NOAH025_M.A200701.001.grb
1:0:d=07010100:NSWRS:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12
2:563720:d=07010100:NLWRS:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12
3:1097066:d=07010100:LHTFL:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12
4:1660786:d=07010100:SHTFL:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12

Undefined parameter table (center 221-221 table 1), using NCEP-opn
5:2224506:d=07010100:GFLUX:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12
6:2727476:d=07010100:LFTX:sfc:anl:NAve=12
7:3291196:d=07010100:4LFTX:sfc:anl:NAve=12
8:3885292:d=07010100:EVP:sfc:anl:NAve=12
9:4388262:d=07010100:SSRUN:sfc:anl:NAve=12
10:4951982:d=07010100:BGRUN:sfc:anl:NAve=12
11:5546078:d=07010100:SNOM:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12
12:5988298:d=07010100:BVF2:sfc:anl:NAve=12
13:6521644:d=07010100:WEASD:sfc:anl:NAve=12
14:7115740:d=07010100:TSOIL:0-4 cm down:anl:NAve=12
15:7649086:d=07010100:TSOIL:0-3 cm down:anl:NAve=12
16:8182432:d=07010100:TSOIL:0-2 cm down:anl:NAve=12
17:8715778:d=07010100:TSOIL:0-1 cm down:anl:NAve=12
18:9218748:d=07010100:SOILM:0-4 cm down:anl:NAve=12
19:9812844:d=07010100:SOILM:0-3 cm down:anl:NAve=12
20:10406940:d=07010100:SOILM:0-2 cm down:anl:NAve=12
21:11001036:d=07010100:SOILM:0-1 cm down:anl:NAve=12
22:11595132:d=07010100:TCDC:sfc:anl:NAve=12
23:12098102:d=07010100:WIND:sfc:anl:NAve=12
24:12540322:d=07010100:TMP:sfc:anl:NAve=12
25:13043292:d=07010100:SPFH:sfc:anl:NAve=12
26:13303258:d=07010100:PRES:sfc:anl:NAve=12
27:13897354:d=07010100:DSWRF:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12
28:14491450:d=07010100:DLWRF:sfc:0-3hr ave:NAve=12

However, when convert it to .nc format using ncl,

[tianyf@tyf ~/gldas]$ ncl_convert2nc GLDAS_NOAH025_M.A200701.001.grb -v weasd
Processing file: GLDAS_NOAH025_M.A200701.001.grb...
Copyright (C) 1995-2007 - All Rights Reserved
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
NCAR Command Language Version 5.0.0
The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (155, center 221, table version 1 grib record 5), using default variable name (VAR_155)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (131, center 221, table version 1 grib record 6), using default variable name (VAR_131)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (132, center 221, table version 1 grib record 7), using default variable name (VAR_132)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (235, center 221, table version 1 grib record 9), using default variable name (VAR_235)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (234, center 221, table version 1 grib record 10), using default variable name (VAR_234)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (138, center 221, table version 1 grib record 12), using default variable name (VAR_138)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (204, center 221, table version 1 grib record 27), using default variable name (VAR_204)
warning:NclGRIB: Unknown grib parameter number detected (205, center 221, table version 1 grib record 28), using default variable name (VAR_205)
warning:getfilevartypes: variable (weasd) does not exist in file (GLDAS_NOAH025_M.A200701.001)
fatal:The result of the conditional expression yields a missing value. NCL can not determine branch, see ismissing function
fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 351 in file /tmp/tmp8895.ncl


ncl does handle other grib file correctly,

[tianyf@tyf ~/ds607]$ ncl_convert2nc 19981201.NOAH_d.grb
Processing file: 19981201.NOAH_d.grb...
Copyright (C) 1995-2007 - All Rights Reserved
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
NCAR Command Language Version 5.0.0
The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.

Thus, I can only use wgrib to extract variables from grib files.

wgrib -s GLDAS_NOAH025_M.A200701.001.grb | grep WEASD | wgrib -i -s -text GLDAS_NOAH025_M.A200701.001.grb -o o

Acrobat 7 quit problem.

Error "the application is being terminated because of memory corruption" when you exit Acrobat 7 (on Windows)

Issue

When you exit Acrobat 7, Acrobat returns the error message,"the application is being terminated because of memory corruption."

Solutions

Do one of the following solutions:

Solution 1: Install the Acrobat 7.0.8 update.

If you have Acrobat 7.0, choose Help > Check For Updates Now to install the update. Alternately, you can download the update from the Adobe website at www.adobe.com/downloads/ .

Solution 2: Remove the files from theAcrobat Organizer folder.

When you remove files from the Acrobat Organizer folder, you force Acrobat to rebuild the Organizer database. This process replaces any damaged files in the Organizer that may be causing the error message.

To remove the files from the Acrobat Organizer folder:

1.Choose Start > Run.

2.In the Open text box, type:%UserProfile%\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\Organizer70.

3.Delete or move all filesfrom this directory.

Solution3: Remove the files from the Updaterfolder.

You may receive this error message after a failed update, indicating that the files in the Updater folder are corrupted.

To remove the files from the Updater folder:

1. Choose Start > Run.

2. In the Open text box, type:%UserProfile%\Application Data\Adobe\Acrobat\7.0\Updater.

3. Delete or move all the files fromthis directory.

Background information

In rare instances, the Acrobat 7.0.0 or 7.0.1 Organizer database is corrupted on exit if the update manager has been run. This issue is resolved in the Acrobat 7.0.5 update.

info of my nb

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why ds607 weasd so small?

much much smaller that of ncep rearead-2.

Failed to compile udunits?

Try set this environment variable:

export CPPFLAGS=-DpgiFortran