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Hi Gerald: You should be able to use it. The stability and code quality is moderately good. However, until we implement the NetCDF-4 reader, we are not sure if the API might need some (probably minor) changes. We anticipate a stable NetCDF-4 format by fall of 2006. the size of the .5 degree grids are large, so the nc file will probably be over 2 gigs. 1089448494 Jun 6 10:08 GFS_Global_0p5deg_20060606_1200.grib2 there is a command line program call Grib2Netcdf, % java -Xmx512m -classpath $CP ucar.nc2.iosp.grib.Grib2Netcdf $INPUT $NC where $CP is CLASSPATH and of course $INPUT input grib and $NC is output file. robb... Gerald Spreitzhofer wrote: > Dear John, > I am trying to convert the GFS model output (Unidata provides resolutions > of 0.5 degrees only in Grib2 format) into a NetCDF file, but have not > found any fully working Grib2-to-NetCDF-converters so far (degrib also > does not provide full functionality). > When will NetCDF-Java 2.2 (which could probably do the job) be beta or > available as production release? Might the alpha version already be used > fo Grib2 decoding, or is it still to unstable? > Regards, Gerald > > ----------------------------------------- > Dr. Gerald Spreitzhofer, Researcher > Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics > University of Vienna > A-1090 Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, UZA2 > Tel.: +43-1-4277-537 33 > email: address@hidden > -----------------------------------------