[gdal-dev] netCDF to GRIB 1

[Bas Retsios]

Hello,

The GDAL-GRIB driver mentioned will read GRIB files (not write them), 
therefore it can not be directly used for converting netCDF to GRIB files.
However, this information might help:
For saving time when I was working on this driver, I implemented it as a 
"wrapper" around a full GRIB library written by Mr. Arthur Taylor.
The SVN link below contains both the "wrapper" that gives GDAL 
"GRIB-read" capabilities (which is file gribdataset.cpp), and the full 
GRIB library (which is all other files).
The GRIB library can both read and write GRIB files, but I only called 
the functions for reading (because that is what I was interested in).
With some effort you would be able to extend gribdataset.cpp so that it 
can also write back a GRIB file. This link 
http://www.gdal.org/gdal_drivertut.html describes how to proceed, at 
section "File Creation".

Cheers,

Bas.

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John L. Craddock wrote:

>Many thanks for your help Mateusz, I will give it a try.
>Regards
>John C
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Mateusz Loskot [mailto:mateusz at loskot.net]
>>Sent: 02 January 2008 06:43
>>To: John L. Craddock
>>Cc: gdal
>>Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] netCDF to GRIB 1
>>
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>>Mateusz Loskot wrote:
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>>>John L. Craddock wrote:
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>>>>Hello all,
>>>>Been scanning the ether for windows code to convert ocean 
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>>current files
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>>>>in netCDF format to GRIB version 1. I know about GRADS and 
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>>the lats4d
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>>>>script. Thought I would ask here if anyone knows of a less 
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>>circuitous
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>>>>way of converting. I see GDAL reads netCDF. Is there a 
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>>driver to output
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>>>>GRIB?
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>>>John,
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>>>There is GRIB driver in the GDAL spike repository:
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>>>https://svn.osgeo.org/gdal/spike/grib/
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>>>You may try to checkout it and build into GDAL.
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>>BTW, here you can find short instructions how to build GDAl with GRIB
>>support (the SVN URL given there is not active anymore, use 
>>the new one
>>above):
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>>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gdal-dev/2007-February/011663.html
>>
>>-- 
>>Mateusz Loskot
>>http://mateusz.loskot.net
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