[THREDDS #ZVT-415274]: Plans for upcoming MRMS GRIB2 data

Earl,

While we do very much prefer NetCDF, we actually host most data/products in 
their native format, so we'll be hosting the MRMS in GRIB2, and you'll be able 
to download the GRIB files we host from our TDS. However, the TDS also supports 
a variety of services, like CDMRemote, OPenDAP, and the NetCDF subset service 
(NCSS), so those service provide the data in NetCDF, or NetCDF-like, format(s).

I've got a working implementation done. Your code served as a good starting 
point for where to get Java PNG support and roughly how to incorporate into 
NetCDF-Java. However, the version of the code you wrote against is about 4 
years out of date, and the code had drifted significantly. FYI, the latest 
version of the grib library is actually 4.5.4. At some point, we synchronized 
the grib package version with the NetCDF-java version, so while 8.x is greater, 
it's actually older than 4.5.4.

I'm currently waiting to see some MRMS products come over NOAAPORT. Have you 
seen any?

Ryan

> Ryan,
> 
> Oh, I just remembered that Unidata does not host the model grids in GRIB2 
> format, but in NetCDF format.  I'm an old weather guy who wrote GRIB1 and 
> GRIB2 decoders and encoders in Fortran and Perl from scratch, so I prefer 
> those formats.  I guess I'll need to get over that and start getting caught 
> up over the weekend with some NetCDF toolsif I want to process the MRMS :-).  
> How is your work going?
> 
> Earl



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: ZVT-415274
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open