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after talking to a co-worker, he suggested that Grads might be able to read your grib file. http://grads.iges.org/grads/grads.html Robb... On Wed, 19 May 2004, Thomas Reichler wrote: > Hi Robb, > > Thanks for your reply. I think many people must have run into this > problem, since the era-40 data I am talking about are widely used, and > they are distributed by DSS from NCAR. So, there might be a chance that > somebody else found already a solution... > > Thomas > > Robb Kambic wrote: > > On Tue, 18 May 2004, Thomas Reichler wrote: > > > > > >>Hi Robb, > >> > >>I asked Lori Thompson from here at GFDL the question below, and she > >>thought you might be able to help me with this. > >> > >>The problem is that I have ECMWF data (era-40) which is want to > >>transform to nc-data. Is there any quick fix for this problem, or is it > >>possible to simply rename the variable names in the grib file? > >> > >>Thanks > >>Thomas > >> > >> > >>-------- Original Message -------- > >>Subject: grib to netcdf > >>Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 16:51:54 -0400 > >>From: Thomas Reichler <address@hidden> > >>To: Lori Thompson <address@hidden> > >>CC: Thomas Reichler <address@hidden> > >>References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402171358240.15096-100000@lat> > >> > >>Lori, > >> > >>I am having problems to convert grib to netcdf using the usual > >>gribtocdl/gribtonc technique. The reason is that my grib file contains > >>variable names which begin with a number (eg. 10U), which is being > > > > > > Thomas, > > > > That's a tough one. The specification of netCDF says variable names cannot > > start with a digit but it can have [a-zA-Z0-9_] characters. The best > > answer would be to go to the data source and ask if they have decoder to > > ascii format, etc. Then the variable names would have to be changed. > > In the Unidata decoders package there's a program > > ascii2nc that probably could be configured to produce a netcdf file. But, > > it's going to be a lot of work. Maybe the data provide could change the > > names also, it's almost standard that variable names don't start with a > > digit. I'll ask around at work if anyone has an idea. > > > > Robb... > > > > > >>rejected by ncgen as an error. Do you have any idea how I could change > >>variable names in a grib file, or is there any other method for the > >>conversion? > >> > >>Thomas > >> > > > > > > =============================================================================== > > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric > > Research > > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > > =============================================================================== > > > -- > Dr. Thomas Reichler, NOAA-GFDL / Princeton University > Forrestal Campus, US Route 1, P.O. Box 308, Princeton, NJ 08542 > Tel: (609) 452-6643, Fax: (609) 987-5063 > Email: address@hidden Web: www.gfdl.noaa.gov/~tjr > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================