Re: GRIB

["Jennifer M. Adams" <jma@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Ansley, for mentioning the GrADS-DODS Server (GDS)
-- an excellent way to use FERRET to analyze GRIB data. The
only difficulty is that you have to create a desciptor file
for the GRIB data so that GrADS can read it. Only then can
it be served up as a DODS data set and become
Ferret-readable. Rosa had written to the GrADS users list
server earlier today asking about how to create a descriptor
file for her GRIB data ... now and then the issues in these
two communities do overlap! 

Another alternative is to use a program called wgrib
(http://wesley.wwb.noaa.gov/wgrib.html) which can read the
grib data and reformat it to binary, which can then be read
by Ferret. 


Jennifer
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Ansley Manke wrote:
> 
> Hello Rosa,
> Yes, there is a way.  Use  the "GDS" server, which will
> make a GRIB file
> into a Web accessible DODS data set that Ferret can read:
> 
>      http://www.iges.org/grads/gds/
> 
> Ansley Manke
> 
> rosario.ruiloba@noveltis.fr wrote:
> 
> > Hello all,
> >
> > there is any way to open a grib file with FERRET or the
> > only solution is to
> > transform grib to NETCDF?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Rosa Ruiloba
> 
> 
>