<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Hi Dimitris</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>i tried it with "degrib" but i got errors</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">./degrib "MPE_20060728_0715_M8_00.grb" -C -msg 1 -Flt -Interp -GrADS</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">i got the following error messages</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ERROR: In call to Grib2Convert.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ERROR: In call to ReadGrib2Record.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Inside ReadGrib2Record.. Problems in MetaParse</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Parse error Section 3</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Un-supported Map Projection 90</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>then i asked Arthur Taylor - "degrib" author what to do-</DIV><DIV>here is his answer </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Degrib is designed to work with the NDFD, and as such works with map projections used by the NDFD. NDFD uses lambert conformal, polar stereographic, and mercator map projections, all of which are supported by degrib. I have also extended degrib to work with lat/lon (unprojected) map projections, but have not extended it further. Unfortunately, your map projection (90), is "space view or orthographic".</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That was the next map projection that I wanted to address, but I've been distracted by a whole series of other projects and I really can't say when I can address it.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sorry,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arthur</DIV>------------------------------------------<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>ok - now hm ? </DIV><DIV>all other ideas are welcome </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Regards Frank<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>Am 26.10.2006 um 10:42 schrieb Dimitris K. Katsanos:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Hello GrADS users.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">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 </SPAN><EM style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-style: italic; ">.dat</SPAN></EM><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "> files for grads?</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Thanks in advance.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Dimitris.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">=====================================================</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Dimitrios K. Katsanos</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">National Observatory of Athens</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Institute for Environmental Research and Sustainable Development </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Lofos Koufou, 152 36, Penteli, Athens, Greece</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">Tel: +30 210 810 9136, Mobile: +30 697 4598389</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">e-mail: </SPAN><A href="mailto:katsanos@meteo.noa.gr"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">katsanos@meteo.noa.gr</SPAN></A><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">=====================================================</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">NOA Weather forecasts: </SPAN><A href="http://www.noa.gr/forecast"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.noa.gr/forecast</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "> (in english)</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">or </SPAN><A href="http://www.meteo.gr"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.meteo.gr</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "> (in greek)</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">NOA Weather forecasts for Europe: </SPAN><A href="http://www.eurometeo.gr"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.eurometeo.gr</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "> (in english)</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">======================================================</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; "></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Dipl. Met. Frank Bandle</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:frank@bandle.com">frank@bandle.com</A> * FeMax Wetteragentur IT & Medienberatung </DIV><DIV>www.wetter365.net * <A href="http://www.femax.de">www.femax.de</A></DIV><DIV>ICQ/AIM: f2topcat *Skype: fraban</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>