GRIB_TO_NETCDF(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

grib_to_netcdf — manual page for grib_to_netcdf 💖

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

grib_to_netcdf

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Convert GRIB file(s) to netCDF format. 🎀

⚠️ lowkey important vibe check: the GRIB geometry should be a regular lat/lon grid or a regular Gaussian grid — like, the key "typeOfGrid" should be "regular_ll" or "regular_gg". Anything else and it's not gonna slay, fr fr. 😭

🎀 USAGE 🎀

grib_to_netcdf [options] -o output_file grib_file grib_file ...

👑 OPTIONS 👑

the full menu, no skips, no crumbs left behind 💅

• -I key1,key2,... — Ignore keys. Default is method,type,stream,refdate,hdate.
• -S key1,key2,... — Split according to keys. Default is param,expver.
• -R date — Reference date in the format YYYYMMDD. Default value is 19000101.
• -D NC_DATATYPE — Type of data. Possible values are NC_BYTE, NC_SHORT, NC_INT, NC_FLOAT, NC_DOUBLE. Default is NC_SHORT.
• -T — Don't use time of validity.
• -f — Force. Force the execution not to fail on error. 🫶 (it's giving "do it anyway bestie")
• -o output_file — The name of the netCDF output file.
• -V — Print version.
• -M — Multi-field support off. Turn off support for multiple fields in a single GRIB message.
• -k kind — Specifies the kind of file to be created. Possible values are:
  1. 1 -> netCDF classic file format
  2. 2 -> netCDF 64 bit classic file format (Default)
  3. 3 -> netCDF-4 file format
  4. 4 -> netCDF-4 classic model file format
• -d level — Deflate data (compression level). Only for netCDF-4 output format. Possible values [0,9]. Default None. Chunking strategy based on GRIB message.
• -s — Shuffle data before deflation compression. ✨
• -u dimension — Set dimension to be an unlimited dimension.
• -h — Display this help text and exit.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

Full documentation and examples at: <https://confluence.ecmwf.int/display/ECC/grib_to_netcdf>

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