How to convert netcdf NCEP winds to grib format

[Jayakrishnan PR]

Dear Arlindo,
      Thank you very much for your response. Here is my output of q config

ga-> q config
Config: v1.9b4 32-bit little-endian readline printim

Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.9b4
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 by Brian Doty and IGES
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
Institute for Global Environment and Society (IGES)
This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information.

Built Wed Aug 22 17:58:44 EDT 2007 for i386-redhat-linux-gnu

This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:

   o This is a 32-bit LITTLE ENDIAN machine version.
   o Command line editing (readline) ENABLED.
   o CIRES/CDC (http://www.cdc.noaa.gov) SDF/XDF interface DISABLED.
     This version is NOT configured to read NetCDF/HDF-SDS files.
   o DTYPE netcdf and DTYPE hdfsds are DISABLED.
   o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) gridded data interface DISABLED.
   o OPeNDAP (a.k.a. DODS) station data interface DISABLED.
   o PCMDI (http://www-pcmdi.llnl.gov) LATS interface DISABLED.
     This version is NOT configured to write GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS files.
   o DAO (http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov) Athena Widget GUI DISABLED.
   o NRL/DAO/PCMDI XA or ImageMagick Image Output DISABLED.
   o printim command for direct png/gif output ENABLED.
     (via the GD Library -- http://www.boutell.com/gd)

For additional information please consult http://grads.iges.org/grads/

ga->


         As you mentioned it is better to read the nc data using fortran
than converting it into grib.  Actually what I wanted is the same as you
said, that is to create plain sequential binary data files of the 17 level
wind and then read using fortran.  Thank you for the information and I will
read the documentation of lats4d to involve more into that.




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Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), Cochin-682 016
Kerala, India.
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