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>From: Owen Cooper <address@hidden> >Organization: NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory >Keywords: 200109281630.f8SGUC126986 NCDP AVN FTP IDD nic McIDAS ADDE email Owen, >I would like to decode the 1x1 degreee AVN data (GRIB) into MCIDAS GRID >format. However the decoders for these data have not yet been written. I >can export the GRIB data to ascii text using the wgrib software. >So next I would like to convert the ascii files into MCIDAS GRID format. The ASCII files would be HUGE. Given your message, I started digging into the grib decoding code to see if I could get this to work. >I found on the e-mail archive that Tom Yoksas had written a program to >convert ascii to grid. The e-mail was from 1997 and is as attached below. Again, dumping the values into ASCII would create absolutely HUGE data files. >Is this program still available? I took a quick look and did not find it. I would dig for it if I thought that this is what you really need, but I don't. >Thank you in advance for any info. you can send my way! Hopefully, I will discover something simple to fix/alter in the grib decoding software of McIDAS that will then allow for decoding of the 1x1 degree AVN grids. As soon as I determine if this is possible, I _will_ let you know. Tom