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19990316: turning GRIB files into McIDAS GRID files

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  • Subject: 19990316: turning GRIB files into McIDAS GRID files
  • Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 11:59:20 -0500 (EST)
Thanks again for your help with using xcd_run to ingest and
decode the GRIB eta grids I got from COMET, things worked
fine.  Each grid took about 20 minutes to decode on our
IBM RS6000 machine:

-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      18921516 Mar 15 18:42 GRID5016
-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      15158372 Mar 15 18:59 GRID5026
-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      18921516 Mar 15 18:04 GRID5035
-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      18921516 Mar 15 19:21 GRID5036
-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      15158372 Mar 15 18:21 GRID5045
-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      15133936 Mar 15 19:38 GRID5046
-rw-r--r--   1 mcidas   usr      27005963 Mar 15 17:47 HRS.SPL


Anyway, glad I know how its done, this is _very_ useful.

Jennie