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Re: which table to use?

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  • Subject: Re: which table to use?
  • Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:58:46 -0700 (MST)
thanks for the info,

robb...


On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Joerg Urban wrote:

> Hi Robb,
>
> I did forward your mail to our GRIB expert,
>
> I got the following response:
>
> I guess this data has been reprocessed after receipt from ECMWF and the
> headers have been remade.
>
> Centre = 98 = ECMWF.
>
> Subcentre = 0 = unused. Strictly, 0 = WMO secretariat so the code should be
>                          255 (missing) but I have never seen this done.
>
> Table version number = 1. This may be due to the header adjustment.
>                            ECMWF tables are in the range 128 upwards.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Joerg
>

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