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20050727: IDV - Error trying to plot local GRIB file 2-D and 3-D f ields (Mac OS X 10.3.9) (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20050727: IDV - Error trying to plot local GRIB file 2-D and 3-D f ields (Mac OS X 10.3.9) (cont.)
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:17:22 -0600
Hi Dave,
Yes, the IDV does read MCIDAS AREA files. It can also read such data remotely via an ADDE server. 

Cheers,
Doug

Dave Dempsey wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Doug Lindholm wrote:



Well, it's not a hardware problem. This is a thin grid (the x dimension
decreases to 1 as the latitude increases) and our software does not
support direct access of the GRIB file. However, you can run the
gribtonc decoder (http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/decoders/)
to convert these to NetCDF files that the IDV can then read.

As I understand it, as things move to GRIB2 there will no longer be
these thin grids to deal with so we have no plans to support thin grids
in their raw GRIB format.




Doug,

Thanks for the diagnosis. I knew I'd be having to set up automatic
decoding of several other types of files anyway, so this won't be a big
deal.

I just realized, though, that I don't know if the IDV can read MCIDAS AREA
files. Does it, or will I have to convert those to something else?

-- Dave