api2arl.cfg

[Sylvain]

Dear all,

I'm using api2arl conversion tool (successfully) but I would like to use the following combination of keys to access Grib2 data: discipline, parameterCategory and parameterNumber instead of shortName in api2arl.cfg.
Is it possible? How?

Thank you,
Sylvain

[ariel.stein]

Yes, it is possible to use the parameterCategory and parameterNumber to extract the variable you are interested in. You will have to edit your api2arl.cfg file by replacing the values for the parameters atmcat (sfccat) and atmnum (sfcnum) which respectively correspond to the parameterCategory and parameterNumber of the variable of interest for the 3 dimensional field (2 dimensional field).

[Sylvain]

Dear Ariel Stein,

Many thanks for your reply but I don't manage to use these arguments:
-I replaced the line "sfcgrb = ...." by 2 lines "sfccat = ...." and "sfcnum = ...."
-it returns "At line 192 of file api2arl.f (unit = 10, file = '/path/myFile.cfg') Fortran runtime error: Cannot match namelist object name sfccat"
Any clues?

Best,
Sylvain

[ariel.stein]

Can you please send the configuration file you are using?

[Sylvain]

Hello,

Code: Select all

&SETUP
 numatm = 6,
 atmgrb = 'gh'  ,'t'   ,'u'   ,'v'   ,'w'   ,'r',
 atmcnv =  1.0  ,  1.0 , 1.0  , 1.0  , 0.01 , 1.0 ,
 atmarl = 'HGTS','TEMP','UWND','VWND','WWND','RELH',
 numsfc = 1,
 sfccat = '1',
 sfcnum = '8',
 sfccnv =  0.001,
 sfcarl = 'TPP6',
/

I also try without quotes (sfccat = 1) but it doesn't work either.
api2arl.f file I used was last revised the 22nd of February 2010
FYI: for testing, I removed the other surface variables I am interested in.

Best,
Sylvain

[ariel.stein]

You are working with an older version of the code.
Please find attached the updated code. Let me know if it works.

[ariel.stein]

You can also download the files from http://ready.arl.noaa.gov/HYSPLIT_data2arl.php, clicking on the "metprog.zip - source code for many of our decoders" link.

[Sylvain]

Many thanks for your reply! It should work now

Best,
Sylvain

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