Re: Profiler Data

>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