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Robb- Thanks for this release. As you know, it has been very useful for the IDV community. A couple of comment on the API/formats: - The methods for adding new parameter tables is quite useful. However, this only seems to be for parameter tables and not for other tables (levels, etc). Since some centers override the defaults or add in new descriptions, it would be useful to have a mechanism to do this as well. The documentation talks about modifying the JAR file, but that seems to be a method fraught with support nightmares. - Supporting the GEMPAK format for tables (in addition to the NCEP format) would be a benefit because GEMPAK usually has up-to-date tables for most real-time GRIB product from NCEP. - It would be useful to have a default parameter table instead of just throwing an exception. In some cases, other centers use the NCEP or WMO defaults. A warning (rather than an exception) could be thrown to notify the user. GEMPAK uses a scheme like this. Don Robb Kambic wrote:
I am pleased to announce the official release of the GRIB Java Decoder. GRIB Java Decoder Since the Meteorological Models are increasing in resolution and new parameters are being added to the models, the models are increasing in size. Currently some models are already over .5 gigabytes in GRIB format. The conversion to netCDF can increase the size of the file by a factor of 10-20 times, making the file size hard to handle by the hardware operating systems. The GRIBJava decoder approach is to only convert the data as it is requested therefore avoiding the large file sizes. The GRIBJava decoder package consists of a set of utilities to manage the GRIB files in an efficient manner. For more information, on-line javadocs, and downloading, see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/decoders/index.html Robb... =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== _______________________________________________ Java-dev mailing list address@hidden http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/java-dev
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