Re: Can IDV decode GRIB files?

• To: Miquel Traveria <mtraveria.pdi@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Can IDV decode GRIB files?
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:47:27 -0700 (MST)

Miquel,

there is a GRIB decoders package that can decode the GFS into ascii text
but it more low level routines. information about the package is at:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/decoders/index.html

robb...



On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Tom Whittaker wrote:

> And, if you run into GRIB2, you can use the IDV (or just a little Jython, as
> Don suggests), or if you have one of the supported platforms, there's always
> 'degrib', I suppose:  <http://www.weather.gov/mdl/degrib/>
>
> tom
>
>
> Brian Blanton wrote:
> > If you just need to decode into ascii,  wgrib is a much smaller hammer
> > for this.  It will decode grib recs into ascii, with a variety of  options.
> >
> > http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib.html
> >
> > I may have mis-understood the issue.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:04 PM, Don Murray wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Miquel-
> >>
> >> Miquel Traveria wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>> I am wondering if I can decode GFS files in GRIB format using the
> >>> IDV, and
> >>> store this decoded information in a plain text file.
> >>> Thank's in advance for your help. Sincerely,
> >>
> >>
> >> The IDV might be a big hammer to hit this little nail,but
> >> it could be done in the Jython interface depending on what
> >> you want to do.  When you say "plain text file", what
> >> format do you want for the output?  Do you want all the
> >> variables or just some subset.
> >>
> >> Since the GRIB reading is done by the underlying netCDF for
> >> Java 2.2 library, it might be eaiser to just use that.
> >>
> >> If you can give a fuller description of what you want to do,
> >> I can give you a little more guidance.
> >>
> >> Don
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