Tag Archives: GRIB

Updates to the GRIB helper routines

Posted on September 6, 2012 by

I’ve received feedback from several people that my GRIB_GET_RECORD routine was causing a nasty hard crash of IDL on 64-bit Linux and Mac OS X. Corinne James of Oregon State University emailed me recently with the problem both identified and … Continue reading →

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Updates to the GRIB helper routines

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

I had time last week to revisit and revise my GRIB helper routines. I learned about accessing records that have multiple fields, so I added a new keyword, MULTI_SUPPORT, to GRIB_GET_RECORD and GRIB_GET_PARAMETERNAMES. I also added simple error handling to … Continue reading →

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Live IDL webinar: “GRIB, Demystified!”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by

I’m giving a set of three live webinars on working with the IDL GRIB library next Thursday, 2012 February 23. Please check our live web seminar page for an abstract and registration details. Here’s the page from which you can download … Continue reading →

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An example of using the GRIB helper routines

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

Earlier I posted some higher-level routines, built on IDL’s GRIB API, for accessing data in a GRIB edition 1 or 2 file. I’d like to show an example of using them. In this example, I downloaded NCEP HiResWindow model data … Continue reading →

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GRIB helper routines

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

IDL’s GRIB routines are a thin layer on top of the the C version of the ECMWF GRIB API.  The ECMWF routines exposed in IDL are fairly low-level, so they require a bit of programming to extract even simple information … Continue reading →

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