This a post from the noaa port group. Following his instructions (text on website) I was able to get DA to read the grib files. Try this
http://www.noaaport.net/projects/dagrib/
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Sometime ago I tried making Digital Atmosphere import the
noaaport grib data but I kept running into problems. I recently
tried once more, and I discovered how to do it. In the process
I also tried the unidata program IDV; it is written in java, and available
for windows. It is probably the closest thing to gempak for windows,
and it has a very nice interface. It can get the data from internet
servers or from the local file system.
The nice thing is that both DA and IDV can read the same kind of file,
surface, upperair, radar, produced by nbsp, and I have now added the
subset of grib files that those programs understand. So, those data files,
which nbsp saves under
/var/noaaport/data/digatmos
can be read by both programs (assuming that the directory has been exported
e.g. via samba). I have done this grib thing with some guess work,
so it may not be 100% consistent yet in the sense that there may be
a few grib files that cannot be imported by one or the other program (although
I have tried to eliminate all of those). I have put some
sample grib data files in
http://www.noaaport.net/projects/dagrib
that can be used to get an idea what DA and IDV can do with them.
(DA users should read the README.da file.)
Those who have installed nbsp-1.3r3 can test this (and help me!)
by simply taking the "dafilter.rc-defaults-1.3r4" file in that directory
and saving it as
/usr/local/etc/nbsp/defaults/dafilter.rc
(which will replace the original that is there). (Stop nbsp before
replacing the file.) Once I feel there are not too many wrinkles left
I will build the new packages for
nbsp-1.3r4
-
Jose
