[GRASS-user] problem importing narr data into GRASS

[Carbonari, Katie (IS)]

Below is the first part of the file. Thanks for your help!

Katie

Driver: GRIB/GRIdded Binary (.grb)
Files: /d1/grassdata/narr_data/narr-a_221_20080312_0300_000.grb
Size is 349, 277
Coordinate System is:
PROJCS["unnamed",
    GEOGCS["Coordinate System imported from GRIB file",
        DATUM["unknown",
            SPHEROID["Sphere",6371200,0]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0],
        UNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
    PROJECTION["Lambert_Conformal_Conic_2SP"],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_1",50],
    PARAMETER["standard_parallel_2",50],
    PARAMETER["latitude_of_origin",0],
    PARAMETER["central_meridian",-107],
    PARAMETER["false_easting",0],
    PARAMETER["false_northing",0]]
Origin = (-5632642.225474951788783,10596359.488314554095268)
Pixel Size = (32463.000000000000000,-32463.000000000000000)
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (-5632642.225,10596359.488) (148d38'24.25"E, 46d38'4.34"N)
Lower Left  (-5632642.225, 1604108.488) (145d23'44.80"W,  0d48'55.65"N)
Upper Right ( 5696944.775,10596359.488) (  2d29'41.57"W, 46d 3'58.26"N)
Lower Right ( 5696944.775, 1604108.488) ( 68d14'23.82"W,  0d36'32.18"N)
Center      (   32151.275, 6100233.988) (106d33'44.57"W, 48d39'37.36"N)
Band 1 Block=349x1 Type=Float64, ColorInterp=Undefined
  Description = 0[-] MSL (Mean sea level)
  Metadata:
    GRIB_UNIT=[Pa]
    GRIB_COMMENT=Mean sea level pressure (ETA model) [Pa]
    GRIB_ELEMENT=MSLET
    GRIB_SHORT_NAME=0-MSL
    GRIB_REF_TIME=  1205290800 sec UTC
    GRIB_VALID_TIME=  1205290800 sec UTC
    GRIB_FORECAST_SECONDS=0 sec


-----Original Message-----
From: neteler.osgeo at gmail.com on behalf of Markus Neteler
Sent: Tue 11/3/2009 3:07 PM
To: Carbonari, Katie (IS)
Cc: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] problem importing narr data into GRASS
 
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Carbonari, Katie (IS)
<Katie.Carbonari at ngc.com> wrote:
>
> Good morning. I'm trying to layer on some NARR (North American Regional
> Reanalysis) data onto my location but am having some issues. When I go to
> import the data (r.in.gdal -o -e
> input=/d1/grassdata/narr_data/narr-a_221_20080312_0300_000.grb output=narr)
> I get the following errors:
>
> Datum <unknown> not recognized by GRASS and no parameters found
> Over-riding projection check
> G_set_window(): Illegal latitude for North
>
> Anyone have any experience reading NARR data into GRASS? I've been
> successful at importing other forms of grib data into GRASS; I'm not sure
> why this data is not working.

Please post the output (or relevant parts) of

gdalinfo /d1/grassdata/narr_data/narr-a_221_20080312_0300_000.grb

gdalinfo is part of GDAL but should be present on your system.

Markus

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