Re: 20020610: Unidata Decoders and modifications (fwd)

• To: Arild Burud <Arild.Burud@xxxxxx>, Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: 20020610: Unidata Decoders and modifications (fwd)
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 10:37:32 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 12 Jun 2002, Russ Rew wrote:

Robb,

Here's more from Arild Burud on his enhancements to gribtonc ...

--Russ

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Date:    Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:31:49 -0000
From:    Arild Burud <Arild.Burud@xxxxxx>
To:      Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 20020610: Unidata Decoders and modifications

Hi, the conversion tools I described to you earlier are now available on
internet:

Documentation of the modified decoders package can be found at
http://noserc.met.no/formkonv/gribtonc.html

Download the modified decoders package from
http://noserc.met.no/formkonv/decoders-2.3.8n.tar.gz

Russ Rew wrote:

> -snip-

> > - Is Unidata interested in the modifications for incorporation in the
> > existing package?

Arild,

Yes, we are interested in incorporating the changes into the decoders
package. Of course we will give you the credit for developing the
gribtocdl program.  At this time, I would appreciate a response back

this time, I've only done minor testing on gribtocdl but I'm very limited
on time.  Do you have any updates since I got the package in June?  Also,
once include the gribtocdl code will be under support by Unidata
Again, you have done a great job in creating gribtocdl program and I'm

Thanks

> > We took the application "gribdump" and rewrote it into a new tool
> > "gribtocdl", enabling automatic creation of a cdl-file from the content
> > of a grib file. This was first based on the built-in parameter tables
> > found in "gribdump" and "gribtonc". Most recently, I added the option of
> > having a user-supplied conversion table for parameter names, this time I
> > had to modify the "gribtonc" application as well. After having informed
> > users about the new tools on our internet pages
> > (http://noserc.met.no/formkonv/) we found that this was generating
> > international interest. I have now received several requests for the
> > software from the US and Portugal.
> >

I like the idea of the using the  user-supplied conversion table for
parameter names, this is a nice feature.


Thanks again,
Robb...

> > We are not interested in making a profit on the tools, we will only
> > distribute them for free.

> > Yes, we are very interested in your changes! They sound useful enough

> that we might want to incorporate some of your enhancements in our
> decoders package (with your permission and giving you credit), or at
> least include a pointer to your web site from our decoders page, so
> our users can access your enhanced versions.  Please let us know if
> this sounds practical.

-snip-

Arild Burud/NoSerC

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