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>From: address@hidden (Marc Nadler) >Organization: NSSL >Keywords: 199408172104.AA16667 EBUFR netCDF Marc, >Are there any utilities available for converting BUFR >formatted Profiler data to other formats such as ASCII or >netCDF? Unidata doesn't have any, but user sites might. We had an inquiry about exactly the same subject earlier from Tammy Kwan of Brookhaven National Labs (address@hidden). We told Tammy that we might have to do this work, but that it was way down on our priority list. You may want to contact here to see if she has already done the work. Below, I have included a list of freely-available decoders that produce netCDF files that may be of use. The freely-available decoders that we know about that produce netCDF files include gribtonc a CRIB-to-netCDF decoder written in C that serves as an example in-line decoder for our LDM (Local Data Management) system, available from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/ldm4/decoders.tar.Z NIDS decoder from the University of Washington, this currently handles only NEXRAD composite reflectivity data. Zeb decoders part of the Zeb package, a system for data ingest, storage, integration and display, designed to operate in both real time and postprocessing modes. For more information, see the URL http://www.atd.ucar.edu/rdp/zeb.html. There are other decoders freely available via anonymous FTP from various sources that decode data into another form than netCDF. For example: NMC's universal BUFR decoder available via anonymous FTP from ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/nws/nmc/codes/bufr/ ECMWF BUFR codes from ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/nws/nmc/development/ecmwf a GRIB decoder for Suns from NMC ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/info/gribsun decoders for the WAFS GRIB products ftp://nic.fb4.noaa.gov/pub/nws/nmc/codes/grib.wafs Tom Yoksas