[netCDFJava #WIK-413864]: Reading forecast dates from grib2

Hi Jitka:

We have been assuming that different runtimes would be in different files. Is 
that possible for your data?

Also, I will think about how to deal with the case where they are in the same 
file.

John

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> John,
> see my comment below
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> On 2011-07-27 19:15, Unidata netCDF Java Support wrote:
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> it says its ensemble data, but all have perturbation = 0. So an ensemble 
> dimension of 1 is created.
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> im seeing 2 variables, Temperature and "Total Precipitation rate".
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> For Temperature:
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> 1) multiple runs (refDate), 6 hours apart.
> 2) for each refDate, 6 hour forecasts out to 360 hours.
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> since these overlap, I end up with 664 unique forecast times. (this is in 4.3 
> sorry you cant see it yet).
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> For Total Precipitation rate:
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> 1) multiple runs (refDate), 6 hours apart.
> 2) for each refDate, 6 hour forecasts out to 360 hours
> 3) each forecast is for the interval 0-foreast (0 = refDate), so one sees 
> 0-6, 0-12, 0-18 ,...0-360.
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> these constitute unique coordinates (no overlap) so you get 36844 of them. 
> The only thing I can think of if I am misunderstanding what the intervals 
> are. (?)
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> what would you expect ?
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> Actually I would expect a run dimension , e.g. :
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> Total_precipitation_rate (run=600, time=60, ......)
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> since the file contains approximately 600 forecast runs - first 
> refDate=01/01/2011 00:00, last refDate=05/31/2011 18:00,6 hours apart, and
> the runs are 6 hour forecasts out to 360 hours (this info is provided by  
> NDFD DeGrib)
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> I see, so you actually want this to be an FMRC with a two dimension time 
> coordinate ?
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> yes indeed,   this is the purpose of  the runtime
> dimension, isn't it
> I use the 'get dimension'  methods of  GridDatatype ( 
> getRunTimeDimension() ,.getEnsembleDimension(), getTimeDimension(),.....) , 
> it is a simple and easy way to read the  files that
> can be wrapped as GridDataset.
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> However I haven't got a GridDataset yet  that provides this runTime
> dimension
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WIK-413864
Department: Support netCDF Java
Priority: Normal
Status: Open