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Unidata GEMPAK Support wrote: >John, > >GEMPAK does not have a general converter from its grid file format to NetCDF. >What is the original source of your data? If possible, it would be best to >go straight to NetCDF from the original data since some data required by the >NetCDF files used by IDV are not part of the GEMPAK data file. > > Steve, Thanks - I ended up writing a perl script to automate the GDGRIB export, and as long as the parameters are WMO standards, the resulting GRIB file converts cleanly with gribtonc and displays perfectly in IDV! John