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20020903: Gempak file conversion

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  • Subject: 20020903: Gempak file conversion
  • Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:53:03 -0600
Sorry,
There is no program to output GEMPAK data files into HDF.
You cound use the gdgrib program to create a grib message for a
given field, and possibly convert that grib to NetCDF using a program like
gribtonc (in the pub/decoders/decoders.tar.Z at ftp.unidata.ucar.edu).

Steve Chiswell

>From: Rick Brandt <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200209031612.g83GCWZ00771

>Dear Support Staff,
>
>I am working with Dr. Steve Mullen at the University of Arizona on a
>project aimed at improving precipitation forecasts in the western US.  To
>do so we are using the neural network toolbox in MATLAB.  We have obtained
>model forecasts in Gempak format, which MATLAB is unable to read.  One
>of the formats MATLAB can read/write is HDF.  Is there a method of
>converting *.gem files to HDF format?
>
>Thank you in advance for any help,
>Rick Brandt
>
>______________________________________________________
>Rick Brandt
>Graduate Research Assistant
>Dept. of Geography and Regional Development
>University of Arizona
>Office:  Physics and Atmospheric Science Bldg, Rm. 510
>______________________________________________________
>
>

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