[gdal-dev] handle GRIB files in polar stereographic projection

[Kyle Shannon]

Daniel,
Can you report your GDAL version, and perhaps a sample dataset?

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 1:32 PM, teeschke <daniel.teske at web.de> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> I am having trouble to handle grib files, that are polar stereographic
> projected. My goal is to reproject the grib into WGS84, but gdalinfo and
> gdalwrap cannot find any data iside the grib.
>
> $ gdalinfo south_hemisphere.grb
> Warning: Inside GRIB2Inventory, Message # 2
> ERROR: Ran out of file reading SECT0
> There were 94 trailing bytes in the file.
> ERROR 4: south_hemisphere.grb is a grib file, but no raster dataset was
> successfully identified.
> gdalinfo failed - unable to open 'south_hemisphere.grb'.
>
>
> Analyzing the file with wgrib brings the following result
>
> $ wgrib -V south_hemisphere.grb
> rec 1:0:date 2014092012 ICEC kpds5=91 kpds6=1 kpds7=0 levels=(0,0) grid=5
> sfc anl: bitmap: 0 undef
>   ICEC=Ice (ice=1;no ice=0) [fraction]
>   timerange 0 P1 0 P2 0 TimeU 1  nx 790 ny 830 GDS grid 5 num_in_ave 0
> missing 0
>   center 88 subcenter 0 process 1 Table 1 scan: WE:SN winds(N/S)
>   polar stereo: Lat1 -41.501000 Long1 -135.000000 Orient 0.000000
>      north pole (790 x 830) Dx 10000 Dy 10000 scan 64 mode 0
>   min/max data -199 100  num bits 16  BDS_Ref -199  DecScale 0 BinScale -7
>
> With wgrib and the netcdf-tools* I can display the metadata. Panoply** can
> also display the grib file in variouse projections
>
> Is GDAL made for working with polar stereographic projected gribs? Do you
> have any idea how I can reproject the grib file?
>
> Thanks you so much and best regards,
> Daniel
>
> *
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/thredds/current/netcdf-java/documentation.htm
> ** http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/
>
>
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Kyle