20010611: GRIB decoding in McIDAS

>From: Bill Fingerhut <address@hidden>
>Organization: Lyndon State
>Keywords: 200106111555.f5BFtJp07220 McIDAS XCD gribdec

Bill,

>I think I found what I need in the email archive, but I 
>thought I would double check with you first.
>
>I have some archived (not real time) ETA model data in GRIB
>format and I want to convert it to McIDAS GRID format. The
>solution seems to be in:
>
>From address@hidden  Fri Aug 27 16:18:37 1999
>by unidata.ucar.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA06784;
>Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:18:36 -0600 (MDT)
>Message-Id: <address@hidden>
>To: "Jennie L. Moody" <address@hidden>
>
>Am I on the right track?

Yes.  Also, I had several interactions with Tony W. at UVa about decoding
GRIB data with gribdec.k.  The gribdec.tar.Z distribution can be found
in the unix/7[67]/testcode directories.  It is easy to download the
compressed tar file and build gribdec.k.  Let me know if you run into
any snags.

Tom