Re: Possible grib-8.0.jar bug

Hi Bill:

We are looking at a solution for this. Do you happen to know where 
meteofrance_1.tab and meteofrance_2.tab files came from? (Robb is on 
vacation for two weeks.)
The quick fix is to remove these, but we are also looking at a fix in 
opendap, since this problem shows up elsewhere.

John

On 5/16/2011 11:35 AM, Bill Hankins wrote:
> Hi John
>
> Regarding a possible issue with the new meteofrance_1.tab and meteofrance_2.tab 
> grib tab resource files within the
> grib-8.0.jar.
>
> Line item 65, i.e.
>
> 65:WEASD:Accum. snow [kg/m^2]
>
> I believe that the period after Accum is causing problems with OPeNDAP and 
> NetcdfSubset access methods.
>
> While reading a grib type MFA SURFA dataset with OPeNDAP the Accum._Snow 
> variable attributes were showing up within
> global attributes.
>
> In NetcdfSubset the Accum._Snow variable won't render without an 403 error 
> stating that Accum._Snow isn't a netcdf
> variable or sometimes with just a content encoding error.
>
> e.g.
>
> http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/surfa/mfa/y2008/m01/catalog.html?dataset=surfa/mfa/y2008/m01/MFA_2008011412_18.gz
>
> Here's the wgrib dump of what should be the Accum_snow variable within the MFA 
> SURFA dataset.
>
> 12:34290960:d=08010112:WEASD:kpds5=65:kpds6=1:kpds7=0:TR=0:P1=12:P2=0:TimeU=1:sfc:12hr
>  fcst:NAve=0
>
> After removing the period from the meteofrance grib tab tables both errors were 
> resolved while testing on our
> development server.
>
> Please advise.
>
> -Bill