Re: 20050603:GEMPAK to netCDF converter?

• To: Yolande Serra <serra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: 20050603:GEMPAK to netCDF converter?
• From: Jeff Weber <jweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 10:36:16 -0600 (MDT)

Yolande,

Contact NCDC, they archive ALL of the models...thats their job.

NOMADS is probably a good place to start:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/nomads/nomads.html


Out of curiousity, why are you oppossed to using GEMPAK?

Cheers,

Jeff
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On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Yolande Serra wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Thanks for your reply. We only have the GEMPAK files on hand. Is there
> a way for me to get the GRIB files? I'm looking for as many years as I
> can get of June-November forecasts. If I cannot get the GRIB files, do
> you guys have FORTRAN or C code that reads the GEMPAK files?
>
> cheers, Yolande
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> On Jun 3, 2005, at 8:20 AM, Jeff Weber wrote:
>
> > Hi Yolande,
> >
> > What would probably be a better path would be to take the original
> > model
> > output (GRIB) and convert to netCDF..using "gribtonc". You can go back
> > to
> > GRIB from GEMPAK, but that can be lossy. If you have access to the
> > original GRIB files that is the way I would go about it. NCDC offers
> > retrospective runs of the GFS in native GRIB or GRIB2 format. I have
> > cc'd
> > Robb Kambic as he is our decoder guru and may have some other
> > advice/options...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
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> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Yolande Serra wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I googled this topic and found a discussion you had with someone in
> >> 2000 on this very subject! What I could not find out was whether there
> >> were such converters available on the Unidata website somewhere or
> >> whether you gave this person something off-line. Would you be able to
> >> help? I am trying to convert GEMPAK data from the GFS model into some
> >> other format I'm more familiar with such as netCDF.
> >>
> >> Many thanks, Yolande Serra
> >>
> >> EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE:
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> >> to this email address.  Thanks.
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> >> Yolande Serra, Research Scientist
> >> Department of Atmospheric Science
> >> University of Arizona
> >> Tel: (520) 621-6619
> >> Fax: (520) 621-6833
> >> serra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>
> >
>