On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Signell, Richard wrote:
> In case it's useful, the "wgrib2" package:
> http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/
> can read both grib1 and grib2 and write both NetCDF3 and NetCDF4 files.
Hmmmm...this might do the trick. I want to be able to convert just the lat/lon
point we need out of the file. Thx!
>
> -Rich
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)
> <christopher.s.lynnes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Russ Rew wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Chris,
>>>
>>>> I see that the netcdf-java API can read GRIB data, which produces nice
>>>> capabi
>>>> lities like the ability to read GRIB into Panoply and (I presume?) TDS .
>>>>
>>>> Does the netCDF C API have this capability? (I guess I'm hoping to sneak
>>>> GRI
>>>> B capability into C/C++ based tools like nco and Hyrax through the API
>>>> back d
>>>> oor, so to speak.)
>>>>
>>>> If not, any plans to add this to the C API?
>>>
>>> APIs built on the netCDF C library, which include C, Fortran, Python and
>>> C++ libraries, have support for OPeNDAP client access. That means
>>> programs built on such APIs can read from an OPeNDAP server that serves
>>> GRIB data. Such programs are DAP clients and by opening with a URL
>>> rather than a local file name, they can access GRIB files, aggregations,
>>> subsets, and other features supported by the Unidata Common Data Model
>>> software.
>>>
>>> There are no current plans to provide netCDF C support for directly
>>> accessing local GRIB files.
>>>
>>> --Russ
>>
>> Yeah, we're using the OPeNDAP trick now, but were looking for a higher
>> performance mechanism, i.e., reading directly off disk...will check direct
>> disk converters instead, like ncl...
>> --
>> Dr. Christopher Lynnes NASA/GSFC, Code 610.2 phone: 301-614-5185
>>
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