[gradsusr] Can the grid be thinned before downloading.

[Rabah Hachelaf]

Hello,

You can filter your download by area/variable/level
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_rap.pl

Hope this help

Rabah


2017-07-10 15:43 GMT-04:00 Philbrick, Herb <
Herbert.PhilbrickIII at arcelormittal.com>:

> Dear Grads users,
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> I should like to use Hi-Res Rapid Refresh (hrrr) but the resolution of
> grid points means that download takes much longer than downloading from
> Rapid Refresh (RAP)
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> Hrrr        http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/hrrr
> res   0.028
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> RAP        http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/rap
> res   0.185 (discontinued);  0.295 (now)
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> I understand that skip() thins the displays, but (I suppose) the
> underlying data are all there in full resolution.
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> My area of interest contains 21,000 grid points, which I estimate is
> 170,000 bytes per forecast hr;
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>                 19 hr would be about 3.2 MB.
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> This, I think, is impractical for a cell phone connection with a weak
> signal.
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> Can the download be thinned?
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> Thanks for your consideration.
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> Thanks,
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> Herb
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