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GRIB1 library CGRIBEX

GRIBEX is an interface for encoding and decoding WMO FM-92 GRIB edition 1 messages and some ancillary subroutines for controlling printing and debugging. The GRIBEX software was developed at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and is part of the EMOS library. EMOS is mostly written in Fortran. Therefore it has only a Fortran interface.

CGRIBEX is a lightweight version of GRIBEX written in ANSI C with a portable Fortran interface. For best compatibility some of the C sources were converted from the Fortran GRIBEX version.

Documentation

A description of the gribex and pbio interface can be found in:

http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/libraries/gribex
http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/libraries/pbio

Notes

CGRIBEX is not a full implementation of the EMOS GRIBEX version. Limitation of this library:

Supported coding option (HOPER): 'C', 'D', 'J' and 'R'.

Supported grids:

  • regular and quasi-regular (reduced) latitude/longitude grids
  • regular and quasi-regular (reduced) gaussian grids
  • spherical harmonic fields
  • triangular grids