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hello, Please forward this message to the people in charge of the FM92-GRIB2 documentation. I work for a NSF funded organization and I am in the process of writing a GRIB2 decoder in java. The decoder is in beta stages, checking for minor problems now. According to the FM92-GRIB2-2005feb.pdf documentation, I have some questions about the Grid Definition Templates starting with template 3.10 Template 3.10 Mercator There is no scale factor stated for: La1, Lo1, LaD, La2, Lo2 Template 3.20 Polar Stereographic There is no scale factor stated for: La1, Lo1, LaD, LoV Template 3.30 Lambert Conformal There is no scale factor stated for: La1, Lo1, LaD, LoV, Latin1, Latin2, Latitude of the southern pole projection Longitude of the southern pole projection Template 3.31 ALbers equal area There is no scale factor stated for: La1, Lo1, LaD, LoV, Latin1, Latin2, Latitude of the southern pole projection Longitude of the southern pole projection I'm sure that I missed other Lat/Lon variables for other projections. Currently, I assume the the Lat/Lon variables are stored as a integer and that the scale factor is 1/1000000. This assumption results in reasonable Lat/Lon values. I tried reading the variables as a float but the results are unreasonable values. It would really help a developer if the variables types were stated in the templates and the scale factor notes were included with all variables. Thanks for your time, Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================