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
