<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I just realized there was a part II to the question. Required libraries for handling GRIB2 are: <div>g2clib, zlib, libpng, libjasper, and libjpeg. Please see <a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html</a></div><div>for links to the src code for these libraries and their home pages. </div><div>Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 15, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> I have recently added some info to the documentation on handling GRIB2 in GrADS. Please see:<div><br></div><div> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/grib.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/grib.html</a><br><div> <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradutilgrib2scan.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/gradutilgrib2scan.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jul 16, 2008, at 4:01 AM, sreenivas desamsetti wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dear GrADS Users,<br>Could you please tell me how to work the GRIB2 files in GrADS directly.<br>Means how to create ctl, idx files and please let me know the<br>necessary libraries need to be installed<br>Thanking you<br>D Srinivas<br><br>Desamsetti Srinivas<br> Research Scholar,<br> Department of Meteorology and Oceanography,<br> Andhra University,<br> Visakhapatnam - 530 003<br> 91 9948530618 (M)<br> <a href="mailto:sreeds82@yahoo.com">sreeds82@yahoo.com</a><br> <a href="mailto:sreeds82@rediffmail.com">sreeds82@rediffmail.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br> </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: 12px; 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: 12px; 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: 12px; 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>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></div></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: 12px; 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: 12px; 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: 12px; 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>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span> </div><br></div></body></html>