Re: GRIB

[Andrew Wittenberg <andyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jennifer,

Here's a resource you may find helpful regarding GRIB/GrADS/NetCDF:

http://wesley.wwb.noaa.gov/links_grads.html

Note especially: grib2ctl, grads2nc

Cheers,

Andrew
 
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Andrew Wittenberg          Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
andyw@splash.princeton.edu                        Princeton University
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Jennifer M. Adams wrote:

> 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
> > 
> > 
> >
>