Users • Re: Using hourly GFS in HYSPLIT

I'm using api2arl_v6 and it doesn't seem to have a problem:
$ rm *.cfg
$ api2arl_v6 -z1 -igfs.t12z.pgrb2.0p25.f001 -of001.arl
$ rm *.cfg
$ api2arl_v6 -z1 -igfs.t12z.pgrb2.0p25.f006 -of006.arl

chk_file output for f001.arl:

WARNING metset: Only one time period of meteo data
File start time: 24 3 11 13 0
File ending time: 24 3 11 13 0
Last record number : 175
Record length bytes: 1038290
Meteo data model : kwbc
Grid size x,y,z : 1440 721 24
Vertical coordinate: 2
First forecast hour: 1
Last forecast hour : 1
Records per time : 175
Minutes between : 1
Pole pnt lat/lon : 90.0000 359.7500
Reference lat/lon: 0.2500 0.2500
Grid size (km) : 27.7996
Orientation : 0.0000
Tang Lat / Cone : 0.0000
Synch pnt x,y : 1.0000 1.0000
Synch pnt lat/lon: -90.0000 0.0000
Global meteorology grid
24 50.0000 7 HGTS 92 TEMP 49 UWND 232 VWND 209 WWND 66 RELH 44 SPHU 75
23 70.0000 7 HGTS 156 TEMP 123 UWND 67 VWND 60 WWND 64 RELH 236 SPHU 254
...

for f006.arl:
WARNING metset: Only one time period of meteo data
File start time: 24 3 11 18 0
File ending time: 24 3 11 18 0
Last record number : 175
Record length bytes: 1038290
Meteo data model : kwbc
Grid size x,y,z : 1440 721 24
Vertical coordinate: 2
First forecast hour: 6
Last forecast hour : 6
Records per time : 175
Minutes between : 1
Pole pnt lat/lon : 90.0000 359.7500
Reference lat/lon: 0.2500 0.2500
Grid size (km) : 27.7996
Orientation : 0.0000
Tang Lat / Cone : 0.0000
Synch pnt x,y : 1.0000 1.0000
Synch pnt lat/lon: -90.0000 0.0000
Global meteorology grid
24 50.0000 7 HGTS 161 TEMP 85 UWND 204 VWND 243 WWND 65 RELH 252 SPHU 115
23 70.0000 7 HGTS 254 TEMP 221 UWND 76 VWND 43 WWND 109 RELH 136 SPHU 109
...

Statistics: Posted by x.sun — March 14th, 2024, 2:09 am

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