On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Jeff Brogden wrote:
Hello,
I have successfully used netcdf-java to open NDFD products as a GridDataset.
The problem I'm having is that the Severe Weather products use the local use
section of the GRIB2 message to embed a weather string table that is used to
create the "colorbar" or legend for that product.
From the NDFD website.
"Cell values in the data part of the GRIB2 message are numbers which refer
to the entry in the weather string table."
How do I read the local use section out of the GridDataset formated GRIB2
data so I can use it to build a proper legend from the data?
Hi Jeff,
The current grib decoder doesn't have a path to access the LocalUseSection
directly. The grib library needs to be refactored to permit this option.
With that being said, attached is a standalone program called
GetLocalUseSection that takes 1 or 2 parameters, input Grib file and
optional output file that reads the LocalUseSection of the first record in
the Grib file. Since my test cases didn't have any files that use the
LocalUseSection the code is untested. Could you send a sample file so it
can be added to the test cases? My thinking was you could decoder the
LocalUseSection and then add those parameters. Hopefully this will provide
a path to the LOcalUseSection until the Grib Library can be refactored.
Here's an url from NDFD about LocalUseSection( section 2 ). From the
documentation, it imples that these parameter might be static, could just
be my interpretation.
http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/graphical/docs/grib_design.html
RObb...
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
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