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[netCDFJava #FFP-649276]: BUFR support: what types are supported?

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  • Subject: [netCDFJava #FFP-649276]: BUFR support: what types are supported?
  • Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:25:07 -0700
Hi Rich,

We serve some BUFR vertical sounding data here:

http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog/station/soundings/catalog.html

which can be read by netCDF-Java 4.0.

John is the BUFR guy and he is out till Monday. He has a bunch of BUFR sample 
files of all types but I don't know the details so I'll let him fill us in on 
that.

Two possible issues I know about are:

1) we may not have the BUFR tables needed for these files;
2) we may not deal with these particular types of BUFR files yet.

Anyway, just a quick response until John can respond.

Ethan

> I have two BUFR files and neither one of them seem to work with
> NetCDF-Java 4 (or perhaps I'm doing something wrong):
> 
> http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/models/share/RITA20050914.bufr
> http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/models/share/synop.bufr
> 
> Is there a list of what types of BUFR are supported?
> 
> Is there an example BUFR file somewhere that does work with NetCDF-Java 4?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rich


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: FFP-649276
Department: Support netCDF Java
Priority: Normal
Status: Open