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[IDV #JRS-727215]: Rotated regular Lat Lon grids

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  • Subject: [IDV #JRS-727215]: Rotated regular Lat Lon grids
  • Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:12:54 -0600
Hi Breogan-
 
> My name is Breogan Gomez and I am currently working in the data
> assimilation section of the DWD (German Weather service). I have
> recently started to play around with the IDV and its advanced features
> but our models have particular grids that are not contemplated in this
> software.
> 
> This is the case of our local model, COSMO, that uses a rotated regular
> lat/lon grid (equivalent to the GFS grid but with the north pole in a
> different place). The output format is GRIB1.
> 
> I have tried to open the file and IDV is able to recognize the inventory
> of the file, but is no able to plot the fields. Do you know if this type
> of grid is available for ploting?

Which version of the IDV are you using?  There were some fixes made recently 
for the
rotated lat/lon grids made in the underlying grib decoding software.  If it 
does not 
work with the latest beta version (2.7b3):

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/idv/test

please upload a sample file to:

http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload

and we'll look into this.

Don Murray

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JRS-727215
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open