Re: Grib Files

["Arribas, Alberto" <alberto.arribas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can also try XCONV, see:

http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/help/software/xconv/

I use it to convert grib to netcdf and it works beautifully!

Cheers,
Alberto


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 05:43, Daryl Herzmann wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2005, Steve Guimond wrote:
> 
> >   Does anyone know if Ferret can handle GRIB (GRIdded Binary) files?  I 
> > did not see this in the documentation.  GRIB is the WMO (World 
> > Meteorological Organization) standard format for data.  I want to 
> > convert GRIB to netCDF.  I am aware of a way to do this using GrADS, but 
> > like FERRET much better.
> 
> Greetings Steve,
> 
> Consider using the NWS NDFD GRIB2 Decoder.  I have had good luck 
> converting various grib products into NetCDF with it.
> 
> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/NDFD_GRIB2Decoder/
> 
> HTH,
>    daryl
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