grib2

[Glenn K. Rutledge]

Thank you Dan.

----- Original Message -----
From: "dan.swank" <Dan.Swank at noaa.gov>
Date: Friday, September 29, 2006 2:41 pm
Subject: Re: grib2

> Folks:
> Note: grib2ctl.pl and gribmap are used for GRIB1 data, not GRIB2.
> I doubt there are any tool kits to help GrADS support GRIB2.
> Support for this would need to be coded
> directly into the GrADS source code.
> The best solution out currently there (that I'm aware of)
>  is to use cnvgrib and convert the GRIB2 into GRIB1...
>  which is rather clunky and inefficient, but works.
> http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2/
> Worse yet, this utility is not trivial to compile.
>
> -Dan
>
>
> Nguyen Dang Quang wrote the following on 9/28/2006 9:53 PM:
> > Hello Pesquero,
> >
> > You need use some other tools such as grib2ctl.pl and gribmap.
> > grib2ctl.pl will create the descriptor file and gribmap will
> create the
> > index file.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jos? Fernando Pesquero <pesquero at CPTEC.INPE.BR>
> > To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> > Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:45:31 -0300
> > Subject: grib2
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I would like to know if there is already a grads tool kit to handle
> >> grib2
> >> with grads.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Pesquero
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> Dan Swank <dan.swank at noaa.gov>
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