20050603:GEMPAK to netCDF converter?

• To: Yolande Serra <serra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: 20050603:GEMPAK to netCDF converter?
• From: Jeff Weber <jweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 09:20:43 -0600 (MDT)

Hi Yolande,

What would probably be a better path would be to take the original model
output (GRIB) and convert to netCDF..using "gribtonc". You can go back to
GRIB from GEMPAK, but that can be lossy. If you have access to the
original GRIB files that is the way I would go about it. NCDC offers
retrospective runs of the GFS in native GRIB or GRIB2 format. I have cc'd
Robb Kambic as he is our decoder guru and may have some other
advice/options...

Cheers,

Jeff
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On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Yolande Serra wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I googled this topic and found a discussion you had with someone in
> 2000 on this very subject! What I could not find out was whether there
> were such converters available on the Unidata website somewhere or
> whether you gave this person something off-line. Would you be able to
> help? I am trying to convert GEMPAK data from the GFS model into some
> other format I'm more familiar with such as netCDF.
>
> Many thanks, Yolande Serra
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