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>From: "Hoeth, Brian" <address@hidden> >Organization: JSFC >Keywords: 200202211951.g1LJpex01567 gribdec.k XCD Brian, >You "da man". Thanks for the quick feedback and thanks for putting that >sample GRDDISP on the web! I was hoping that seeing the results would be more convincing than being told that things work :-) >I'm thinking that if your gribdec.k can handle >that huge AVN file, it should be able to take on any of the other GRIB >files, Just so that credit is given where credit is due: The original gribdec.tar.Z release was put together by Chad Johnson, formerly of SSEC. What I did was take his bundle and find out why it and XCD were unable to decode the very grids you are interested in: the 1x1 degree global grid 3s. To do this, I had to learn about how grib data is decoded in McIDAS, and then find out why things were not working and fix them. >except perhaps the Ensemble data? The McIDAS grib decoders (XCD/gribdec.k) do not know how to decode the ensemble data. The reason for this is that the vertical level for those grids do not conform to the "normal" pressure levels that the McIDAS grib decoders were written to handle. At some point, I might be tempted to figure out how to augment the grib decoding so that the ensembles can be decoded into McIDAS GRID form, but that project is way down on my list of things to do. Tom