<p>I am attempting to download the 2m temperature forecast from the GFS forecasts archived by AWS's open dataset archive. I am having some issues figuring out the feature name to search for in the file names in order to get the correct data. I am filtering for grib2 files and am getting file names such as &quot;gfs.20201030/18/gfs.t18z.gtg.0p25.f003.grib2&quot; but none of them contain any containing a temperature feature name? What feature name should I be looking for, or am I just doing this all wrong? I appreciate any help on this newbie issue, as I have spent a couple of days trying to figure it out coming from the GEFS Reforecasts and am still stumped.</p>

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2020-11-11T22:02:18.700Z
What software are you using to look at the data?
BarocliniCplusplus
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2020-11-14T07:55:38.020Z
Perhaps an idea of which location you're using (if there are multiple?)  Because https://docs.opendata.aws/noaa-gfs-pds/readme.html suggests the name format should be different, if I'm looking in the right spot.  Generally if I remember right GFS temperature was just 2mT in NOAA's GFS files (but it's been a while, maybe it's changed)
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How to download the GFS 2m Temperature data?
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# How to download the GFS 2m Temperature data?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-11-09)

I am attempting to download the 2m temperature forecast from the GFS forecasts archived by AWS's open dataset archive. I am having some issues figuring out the feature name to search for in the file names in order to get the correct data. I am filtering for grib2 files and am getting file names such as "gfs.20201030/18/gfs.t18z.gtg.0p25.f003.grib2" but none of them contain any containing a temperature feature name? What feature name should I be looking for, or am I just doing this all wrong? I appreciate any help on this newbie issue, as I have spent a couple of days trying to figure it out coming from the GEFS Reforecasts and am still stumped.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: What software are you using to look at the data?  
> **username_2**: Perhaps an idea of which location you're using (if there are multiple?)  Because https://docs.opendata.aws/noaa-gfs-pds/readme.html suggests the name format should be different, if I'm looking in the right spot.  Generally if I remember right GFS temperature was just 2mT in NOAA's GFS files (but it's been a while, maybe it's changed)  

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