GrADS and grib2

[Wesley Ebisuzaki]

Steve,

   Wgrib2 is working at the functional level of the original wgrib.  New
features
are still in development.  So the code is usable now, just the new
features will take
a long time to appear without some help.

    Compiling wgrib2 will be as challenging as the grib2<->grib1
converter.  That can't
be avoided as the GRIB2 format uses png, jpeg and libz compression
provided by
other libraries.  Anyways compiling is pretty painless on a linux box
(ok, my linux box).

         Wesley Ebisuzaki

wgrib2:  http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/index.html


Masters.Steve wrote:

>From the latest NCEP "jifmem o" announcing current and future plans...
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>"1.  The moratorium on changes at the NWS Telecommunications Operations Center (TOC) is expected to end in mid to late February.  As soon as the moratorium is lifted NCEP will begin the transition from GRIB1 to GRIB2, by placing duplicate GRIB2 files on the TOC FTP server.  Both sets of data will remain on the TOC FTP server for a minimum of 180 days. "
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>It looks like NCEP may soon be pushing more model files to grib2 to save space and bandwidth. The GFS half-degree grids are already in grib2.  While a grib2->grib1 converter is available, getting it to compile and run is "challenging" at best on most platforms.  Is there any work being done (or already done) for grads to read grib2?  I note that there is not yet an operational (or even beta) wgrib2 program.
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>Steve Masters   masters.steve at ensco.com
>ENSCO, Inc.
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