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Hi David, > I run a WRF model and would like to make it available my students and faculty > by having it > on our EDEX server. All the documentation I have seen refers to adding grib > files to the > EDEX server but WRF of course uses its version of netCDF. How can I add the > WRF netCDF to > my EDEX server and make it available? > Thanks! I will have to confirm exactly with my colleague when she's back in the office later this week, but I'm not sure this can be done easily. I think EDEX does currently ingest some netCDF products (some satellite products), but I doubt your netCDF files will be in a format similar enough to make use of one of those existing plugins. So, the only way to get that data into EDEX would be to write your own plugin (Java and xml programming), which is a non-trivial task. The other option would be to try and convert or produce the WRF data in grib format. I don't know a lot about WRF data, but searching around, I was able to find some documentation: https://www.researchgate.net/post/WRF_output_in_grib2_format That mentioned you *can* produce the output in grib format... For GRIB2 format, in namelist.input, you can set io_form_history to 10. io_form_history: The output format in which the history file (wrfout_d0*) will be written Available Options: 2 = netCDF (default; recommended) 1 = binary format (no supported post-processing software available) 4 = PHDF5 format (no supported post-processing software available) 5 = GRIB1 format 10 = GRIB2 format 11 = parallel netCDF format 102 = split netCDF (no supported post-processing software available) I'm not sure if that's something you could feasibly do, but having the output in grib format would be the easiest way to get it ingested into an EDEX server. Let me know if this is helpful at all, and I will let you know if I found out anything further. Thanks. --Shay Carter She/Her/Hers AWIPS Software Engineer UCAR - Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FRQ-918024 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Normal Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.