meteosat data

[Adolfo Magaldi]

Dimitris K. Katsanos escribio':
> Hello GrADS users.
> Has anyone tried to use grads to "read" msg (meteosat second
> generation) data? Is there any tool or sciprt to read this kind of
> files (binary data) and create /.dat/ files for grads?
> Thanks in advance.
> Dimitris.
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> Dimitrios K. Katsanos
> National Observatory of Athens
> Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development
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> I do not know any scrip that does this automatically.
> but its relatively easy to do it.
> 1. - If the data of msg come from a receiver in real time (eg. Dartcom
> macropro)
> you must specify a region (latmin-latmax, lonmin-lonmax and Step) to
> export them as binary file (.dat)
> With this information its easy to construct the .ctl
>
> 2. - if the data of msg come from the eumetsat's archive
> . you must know, the file that recives of eumetsat has this format
> HEDER + DATAARRAY therefore you must make a program that eliminates
> header and leaves the Array data the resultant of this program its
> your .dat File
>
> and .ctl its made whith the information in header (in ASCCI)
> this last step is very well documented in pag of eumetsat.
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