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GRIB Viewer
What the users have said:
- I'm pleased that you were able to work with us and develop your software to process additional information which will be
useful for our forecast operations as the National Meteorological Service for the Isle of
Man - Alan Hisscott Senior Meteorological Officer Isle of Man Meteorological
Office.
- Thank you very much, the results are splendid. Your
GRIB Viewer is a very useful piece of software - Nicola Sebastiani,
Alessandria, Italy. http://www.scsebnic.net
Download the GRIB Viewer
Register the
GRIB Viewer
- please help support continued development
What is the GRIB Viewer?
The GRIB Viewer version 2 visualises the GRIB data broadcast over the
DWDSAT system, and data from the Norway & Danish and Météo France OSI-SAF
broadcast over EUMETCast. You can also visit the Yahoo
DWDSAT group to exchange ideas with other DWDSAT users, and the MSG-1
Yahoo group to discuss EUMETCast data products.
What data does it read?
- DWDSAT GRIB data available from the EUMETCast system (as used for
Meteosat-8 reception). Please note that DWDSAT is a separately paid-for
service from DWD.
- Norway and Denmark OSI-SAF
sea-ice products
- Sea-ice edge, type and concentration, in 10 km
resolution polar stereographic grid covering the Atlantic part of the
Arctic broadcast over EUMETCast (S-OSI_-NOR)
- Pre-production Northern hemisphere sea-ice over FTP (ICE_CONC_NH)
- Pre-production Southern hemisphere sea-ice over FTP (ICE_CONC_SH)
- Météo France OSI-SAF products
- Low and Medium Latitudes Downward Longwave Irradiance (LML
DLI)
- Low and Medium Latitudes Solar Surface Irradiance (LML
SSI)
- Low and Medium Latitudes Sea-Surface Temperature (LML
SST)
- Merged Atlantic Products Downward Longwave Irradiance
(MAP DLI)
- Merged Atlantic Products Solar Surface Irradiance (MAP
SSI)
- North Atlantic & Regional seas Sea-Surface
Temperature (7 areas) (NAR SST)
- Selected UK Met
Office DPDS data
- EUMETSAT MPE (Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimate) data
available here.
There are 2 files per hour per satellite; each file is about 800 KB
size. This data covers both the EUMETSAT 5 (Indian Ocean) and
Meteosat-7 (Europe, Africa and some South America) regions. More
information about EUMETSAT products.
- GRIB files produced in connection with the MaxSea
service.
What do the results look like?

Sample from the DWDSAT data stream
Please note that DWDSAT is a separately paid-for service
Can I register and what do I get?
The program as downloaded provides a 30-day trial licence
period to allow you to evaluate its function. After the 30-day period, you
will need to register to continue running the program.
If you are already a registered user of version 1 of the GRIB
viewer, there is an upgrade available to you here.
If you bought the GRIB Viewer after 01 August 2005, you are entitled to a free
upgrade to the GRIB Viewer version 2.
| V2.1.0 |
Add support for ECMWF Essential GTS data,
add support for EUMETSAT Fire data, support NOAA Wavewatch III data,
replace "the Earth's surface" with "surface" - OK?, add
wind barbs option, support GRIB-1 relative vorticity and divergence,
support some GRIB-2 meteorological data, be more tolerant with
multiple-data-set files (but this may result in issues reading non-grb
data), accept ARPA-FVG-Udine-Italy data, trap errors from incomplete GRIB
files, set ERRORLEVEL = 1 if no files processed in batch mode, reduce load
times for CRM data, revise sample GRIBviewerGroups.ini for MPE now from
Met-8, add more examples to GRIBviewerGroups.ini. |
| V2.1.2 |
Revise palette for MPE data, and display a scale. |
| V2.1.4 |
Add TIFF as an output format, many
batch-mode enhancements, add text fire-pixel list output, add ASCII output
format with region selection, provide fix for 57E EUMETSAT data, add
support for EUMETSAT DIV data, provide scales for more data types, add
choice of scale locations, add timestamp overlay option, add sorted by
time display option (for multi-entry data sets), and simple animation
option, support 800 x 600 display operation, improved Windows Vista
compatibility. |
| V2.1.6 |
EUMETSAT FIRE & MPE data enhancements
(add timestamp display, improved PNG output with dark boundary or grid
lines), batch mode - force ASCII output if -TEXT is used rather than
-SAVE, accept -RANGE parameter to save text data range information, add
limited support for NOAA snow files (file names like:
NPR.SNWS.SP.D07217.S1200 [.grb], age displayed in days up to 254 maximum,
depth displayed in inches up to 125 inches maximum), start support for
some NOAAPORT data, add limited support for Lambert Conformal data, accept
files ending in -tar as well as .tar, enhanced scale production (more data
types, greater ranges), extend scale bar to bipolar ranges, improved
timestamp display, allow for changes to EUMETSAT CRM data, correct failure
to draw grid over full geostationary zoomed region, improved display of
DWDSAT UV data. |
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Download the GRIB Viewer V2.1.6 (618,182 bytes;
2007 Dec 22)
- Please note that this download includes a 30-day trial of the full
GRIB Viewer. If you don't register or upgrade within 30 days the
program ceases working.
- If you bought a GRIB Viewer 2 licence before February 2006,
you may need a new licence code. This will be supplied free-of-charge
to registered users.
Register
the GRIB Viewer - please help support continued development
- If you don't already have my runtime Library
Bundle, please download and install it (do this if you get messages
about missing DLLs when trying to run the program).
- For country outlines, you can use the file Countries.dat,
which may already be on your PC or you can download it here
(460KB).
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