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<DIV>Morwakoma,</DIV>
<DIV>There are fancier ways to do this, but a simple way would be to install wgrib2 then use it to convert your grib2 formatted file to a binary file, build a control file for the binary file, then read the binary file. </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/">http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/</A></DIV>
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<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Thanks, <BR>Mark</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I am running a GrADS v1.8SL7 32-bit on x86-64 and managed to convert the GRIB-2 file to a .NC file using lats4d. I could only open the file using sdfopen but am not able to display individual atmospheric fields . <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I would much like to work with GRIB-2 formatted data but the GrADS version that I use appears to be short of g2gdf.pl, g2_open,g2_exec and g2() functionalities. I was wondering if there is a website available that contains information about installation of the mentioned functionalities.<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Your assistance would be appreciated<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Morwakoma<o:p></o:p></P>
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