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Subject: Degrib 1.27
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 21:11:22 -0400 From: "Arthur.Taylor" Organization: DOC/NOAA/NWS - National Weather Service To: Arthur.Taylor@noaa.gov Hi You all have the unique distinction of being registered on my degrib (aka NDFD_GRIB2Decoder) mailing list (all 167 of us) (I'd like to welcome: matt, cpeters, burnst-c, khkiley, chip, bowers, randall.fuehrer, archer_scott, duncombr, arthur.strutzenberg, cris.castello, Bonnie_E_Reed, apatrick, markv, admin, quentins, dbl, a.bond, lindinbrook, dbuell, ddb100, akrherz, deyre, fisherh, rovero, provero, msarazin, peterr, joearcher, chaw, tony.simmers, anneliese.sherer, charles.keller, steven.sigler, doug.marcy, roger.lamoni, dave.toronto, peggy.glitto) Please let me know (email me) if you want to unregister. The latest version of the program is on: www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/NDFD_GRIB2Decoder/ ----------- General News. 1) Keep in mind that on Oct 1, 2003 MaxT, MinT, and PoP12 are going to be going operational. What this means is that I think their URL's are going to change. I don't know where they are going to go yet, so the current version of degrib isn't ready for the change. I should know in time for "degrib 1.30" 2) I'd like to thank everyone who came to the NDFD Technical Workshop (8/13). I thought it went well, and it was nice to see some of the people who are using degrib. I hope you found the workshop useful. 3) I'd like to thank the WFO in Glasgow MT for hosting the Great Divide Workshop (8/26-8/28), and for inviting me to share my small little program with them. I got quite a bit out of it, from seeing things through the eyes of a forecaster, to realizing that verification (gridded in particular) is a hot topic. 4) degrib turned 1 year old on 8/26/2003, and I got to enjoy a great tour of the Fort Peck Dam (near Glasgow Montana) in celebration. :-) 5) I found out that degrib has been obliquely mentioned in 2 NWS focus articles: A) 6/2/2003: http://weather.gov/com/nwsfocus/fs060203.htm (thanks Dave Brown, David Runyan and Matt Parks for the kind words.) B) 9/8/2003: http://weather.gov/com/nwsfocus/fs090803.htm (good luck Roger Lamoni (WFO Reno WCM) with the GIS meeting in December. I'll be thinking of you, and would appreciate it if someone would let me know how it goes.) 6) For those familiar with the unidata-gis@unidata.ucar.edu email list, I'd like to thank Daryl (akrherz) for his kind words about degrib, which filtered back to me via a member of that list. ----------- News about this release: I just wanted to let you all know that I have just finished putting together version "1.27" (last one that I announced was "1.25" on 8/8/2003). This release is mainly focused on the new -Data and -DP options, along with a "web.tcl" script. (Note 1: If you are not interested in CGI, or automating the download of NDFD data, you may want to wait for "1.30") (Note 2: The -Data and -DP options are NEW. In theory the -DP should give the same results as -P, but there may be some bugs that haven't been ironed out.) 1) Introduced a -Data option. This option dumps the GRIB2 data to either a set of .flt files, or what I am referring to as a single "data cube" (I believe the "data cube" can be used by GrADS with a good control file and I shall work on that in the future.) In addition to dumping all the grids, it creates an index file (.flx or .ind), which has all the meta data from the GRIB2 file. (see "./degrib/bin/MakeData.tcl" or "./degrib/bin/MakeDataBase.sh") The combination of the binary float file and the (meta data / index file), preserves all the information in the GRIB2 file in a non-compressed form. 2) Introduced a -DP option, which given an index file (from the -Data option) allows degrib to probe the set of .flx files or the single data cube (the index file references the .flx or data cube files). The -DP option is very similar to the -P option, except -DP doesn't have to uncompress anything, so it is a lot faster. CGI programs using the -P option were too slow, hopefully the -DP option will improve things. 3) Created "./degrib/bin/web.tcl" which is a means of automating the download of data from the http sites. It uses "tcldegrib" (which I've reintroduced), which doesn't need tk, so it can be scripted and put in cron jobs. From a batch script or dos-prompt (command prompt), simply type "tcldegrib web.tcl conus,maxt,mint,pop12" or "tcldegrib web.tcl conus,all". Similarly from Unix (assuming you compiled with tcl) type either "web.tcl conus,all" or "tcldegrib web.tcl conus,all" 4) Added release notes to the Web Site, along with pictures of the various sectors. 5) Improved usage messages by having a different message depending on the "command option". This is so the user doesn't have to read as much. 6) Switched to one command option (-C -I -P -V -Data -DP) per run, and removed dependence on knowledge of the length of the GRIB2 file. This was so I could get closer to pipeing the grib file into degrib. 7) Added "MaxT_Tropical.colortable" for use with imageGen. This is intended for Tropical locales like PR. In addition, updated imageGen data to reflect the current data on the NDFD web-site. 8) Validated that Radius of Earth is now correctly encoded as "6371.2" km (thanks Tim). 9) Some minor bug fixes with regards to parsing and probing the Wx strings. ----------- As always, I tested this release on my PC (win 2000), a Linux machine, a HP-Unix machine, and an AIX-Unix (machine). Although I may have missed something in my testing, it should at least compile, and run for some of the test cases. For those of you with access to the NWS NCEP machine, my current version is in: /nfsuser/g06/we25at/degrib (on snow/frost). For those with access to MDL's GDP or NHDW machines, see: /home/taylor/ (./degrib/bin/degrib.lin for linux or ./degrib/bin/degrib.hp for Hp's) Please let me know if you have problems. Regards, Arthur (Art in MDT (Mountain Daylight Time) :-) ) ("Big A" when talking to Glasgow's WCM :-) )
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