[Met_help] If I want to use precip files....?

[John Halley Gotway]

Erik,

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with global precip analyses in GRIB.  I know that StageII and StageIV precip analyses are available in GRIB format.  I'd refer you to Lacey Holland on this but she recently 
left NCAR for a new job.

I would guess that there would be HDF -> NetCDF converters out there.

If you do find a good source for this data in GRIB, let me know and I can add a link to it on the MET website.

John

Erik Noble wrote:
> Maybe you know more about this than me......
> What global precipitation data  is available in GRIB already? All the
> ones I encounter are ither binary or HDF format.
> -Erik
> 
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 11:51 AM, John Halley Gotway <johnhg at rap.ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Erik,
>>
>> For use with MET, the easiest thing would be to get the data into GRIB1
>> format.  Then you'd be able to use it directly in MET.
>>
>> If that's too difficult, you could get it into NetCDF format, and I could
>> help you set up the format for the NetCDF files so that MET would be able to
>> read it.  In future releases of MET, we hope to more fully support the
>> NetCDF CF conventions.  For the current release though, we'd just need to
>> make your NetCDF file look like the output of the PCP-Combine tool (in MET).
>>  Then the stats tools would be able to read the NetCDF file.
>>
>> John
>>
>> Erik Noble wrote:
>>> Dear MET help,
>>> If I have access to precipitation observation data that is only
>>> available in binary, can I still use it with MET.
>>> This site says that it has a fortran code that I can use to "read" the
>>> data, but I ahve to figure out what format I want the output in.
>>>
>>> What do I need to do in oder to use it with MET?
>>> -Erik
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>> From: Gareth Berry <gareth at atmos.albany.edu>
>>> Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:39 PM
>>> Subject: Re: WAF submission
>>> To: enoble at giss.nasa.gov
>>> Cc: chris at atmos.albany.edu
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Erik,
>>>
>>> Chris asked me to reply to you about the cmorph data.
>>>
>>> The data is in a binary format, there is fortran code in the readme
>>> file that you can use to read it
>>> and export to your favourite data format (netcdf etc).
>>>
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/precip/global_CMORPH/3-hourly_025deg/README.cmorph.025deg_3-hourly
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Gareth.
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