Re: 20040512: gribtonc - S400.wood.wmich.edu

• To: Karthik Samudram Jayaraman <ksamudra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: 20040512: gribtonc - S400.wood.wmich.edu
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:11:03 -0600 (MDT)

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Unidata Support wrote:

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>From: Karthik Samudram Jayaraman <ksamudra@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: gribtonc - S400.wood.wmich.edu
>Organization: Western Michigan University
>Keywords: 200405121642.i4CGgktK022165 gribtonc

Hi ,

We have some GRIB data that needs to be converted to .nc format. So
i have downloaded and installled netcdf , udunits and gribtonc ( I
have installed netcdf , udunits - because gribtonc uses these !!! ).

Iam not sure what to do next and how to convert the image using
gribtonc.

Karthik,

The first step is to create a cdl file for the data with the gribtocdl
command.  Take a file that has all the parameters in the data set , ie

% gribtocdl -v < rawdata > grib.cdl

This is the cdl file for the data, it usually needs to be modified
somewhat because the GRIB data is complex.  One can look at the raw data
with the gribdump command, ie

% gribdump -h rawdata | more

Then run the gribtonc command, ie

% gribtonc -vl - grib.cdl grib.nc < rawdata

There are man pages for detail info on all the commands.

Robb...

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Sincerely ,

Karthik Samudram Jayaraman

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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