07 February 2008

Easily convert grib files to ncdf

NCL has been successfully installed on the server of the geography Dpt
This soft is able to read both grib and ncdf files

Included a usefull tool to convert grib files to ncdf.
Assuming a file called test.grb
Just try on a linux terminal:

ncl_convert2nc test.grb

It will create a file called test.nc

You can then see the file header by typing:
ncdump -h test.nc

More details:
http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/griball.shtml/

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