Questions tagged [grib]
GRIB (GRIdded Binary or General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form) is a concise data format commonly used in meteorology to store historical and forecast weather data. It is standardized by the World Meteorological Organization's Commission for Basic Systems, known under number GRIB FM 92-IX, described in WMO Manual on Codes No.306.
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How to properly store raster data in GRIB format
I have some raster data stored as individual uncompressed geotiff files (one file per time step) that I would like to store in a more compact way. I have decided to try different formats and see which ...
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Crossing English channel in a boat
GRIB file = (U-V) component. from
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GRIB represents currents. Vectors(U-V) blue arrows and a color scale --> Magnitude and direction. Blue'ish to the left. Yellowish to ...
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Looking up whole time-series for specific point from 45 GB file
I want to look-up 8760 times for a single lat/lon combo in less than a second from 43.82 GB file of wind data containing:
8760 times (every hour in a year)
721 latitudes (every 0.25° from -90.0° to ...
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Why do rioxarray reprojection and pyproj transform give different values when selecting a pixel by point coordinates?
I'm opening this grib file using rioxarray and reprojecting to WGS84 in the following manner with the goal of grabbing pixel values by coordinates.
import rioxarray
url = 'https://noaa-hrrr-bdp-pds....
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How does one get the metadata of each band of a grib file using rasterio?
Is there a way to see the metadata of each band of a grib file using rasterio? Using gdal this can be accomplished by:
import gdal
path = r"D:\path\to\somewhere.grib"
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Reading grib file without extension using Xarray
Is it possible to read a file without an extension from Xarray and let Xarray infer the correct datatype?
Context: I downloaded files with .Z compression from https://data.eol.ucar.edu/. An example ...
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Error when creating geodataframe from lists [geographic coordinates and GRIB CRS]
I'm working with meteorological data and I want to insert the grid points and also their polygon in a GeoDataFrame.
They are generated by ERA5 and in a GRIB format.
When I try to create the ...
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Unable to convert grib2 files to geoJSON file (as polygons)
I have been working with the following GRIB2 files at https://mrms.ncep.noaa.gov/data/3DZdr/MergedZdr_02.00/. I need to setup a process to convert these to geoJSON polygons. I have tried official ...
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Continued issue with ECCODES_DEFINITION_PATH for use with cfgrib
I have found a few posts that address this general topic:
ECCODES ERROR when opening .GRIB file in Spyder/Visual Studio Code
https://github.com/ecmwf/cfgrib/issues/85
The first link is the exact ...
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How to convert a GRIB file to CSV/ASCII
I have downloaded the ERA5-Land hourly-ECMWF climate reanalysis data from Copernicus. The data come in .grib format. It would be easy for me to manipulate the data in .csv or ASCII format. The idea is ...
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GDAL: wrong corner coordinates from KNMI grib file
I'm trying to parse KNMI grib files to extract weather forecasts for The Netherlands. I use gdal.netcore which is a .NET wrapper for gdal 3.2.0. On the website of KNMI they say the following:
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GDAL's ReadAsArray() incredibly slow when reading an in-memory raster?
So I have a script set up in a conda environment on macOS Catalina running python 3.7, I'll post a paraphrased version of it:
from osgeo import gdal
import numpy as np
grib_url = '/vsicurl/...
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Plotting grib file in Java GeoTools
I'm fairly new to Java and GeoTools and I'm trying to plot this grib of meteorological data; I have the code for shapefiles, but I don't know where to go from here:
File file = JFileDataStoreChooser....
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Reading some NOMADS grib files fails
I am trying to read in a file from https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov
I can read all multigrid files like here
but my script fails to read files from other links that are supposed to be Grib files
such as ...
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Unable to read GRIB datas with XArray
I used this code to read grib data
import os
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import xarray as xr
path = "gfsanl_4_2019101000.g2"
os.chdir(path)
ds = xr.open_dataset('...
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Converting GRIB2 to GeoTIFF
I am trying to convert a GRIB2 file to a GeoTIFF file using gdal.
My Commands:
gdal_translate -b 1 -a_srs EPSG:3857 some.grib2 some.grib2.tif
gdalwarp -t_srs '+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +ellps=WGS84 +...
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+0-180 degrees of mesh layer are displaying as horizontal lines [QGIS]
I have been trying to display weather data from ECMWF in QGIS on top of a base map, but half of the heatmap rendered from the mesh layer (imported via grib) displays as straight horizontal lines.
I ...
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Converting GRIB to CSV or to binary data
The challenge is to extract multidimensional data (weather and ocean data in this case) from .grib files, without having to
download and install any new software on the computer by running ...
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Extract values from Grib-files at several specific locations
I have got a GRIB file from ECMWF for a small area in the Antarctic. It contains hourly data for one month of multiple variables (eg. wind, seaicecover, sst etc.). I want to extract this data to .txt ...
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ECCODES ERROR when opening .GRIB file in Spyder/Visual Studio Code
I have accessed Anaconda Prompt for the environment that I will be working.
Once there, I have changed the directory to the place where I have the grib files that I will be working with, in order to ...
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Installing eccodes with conda install windows
I am trying to install eccodes using conda forge, following the advice on https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/eccodes, on a windows 10 computer.
I keep getting an error message:
failed with initial ...
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Proper way to calculate a selection of GRIB2 data points?
I have a GRIB2 file that I have successfully parsed and got an array of temperatures for a specific latitude and longitude. What would be the proper way to convert this array to a single value? I wasn'...
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ERA5 grib file: how to know what each band means?
I downloaded monthly averaged data for a given area, 2 variables and 3 years. I read the grib file on R and I see there are 72 bands (12*2*3). Great. But how do I know what each one is? I would expect ...
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In ArcGIS, exporting a GRIB file to a different format changes the cell values of the original raster
I downloaded some climate variables from Copernicus as GRIB format. ArcGIS 10.7.1 allows me to directly add them to my table of contents and it shows me, as usual, some maximum and minimum values. The ...
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SRID mismatch while loading in PostGIS?
I have a grib2 file from GFS. I tried to load it as a raster like so...
gdalwarp -t_srs EPSG:4326 example.grib2 warp_example.grib2
raster2pgsql -I -C -M -d warp_example.grib2 table | psql $database
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Geoserver does not wrap GRIB raster points to coordinates where x < 0
I am new to the GeoServer and want to use it for plotting wind barbs based on a GRIB file over land data.
The wind barbs are properly created but nothing is shown on coordinates x < 0.
The map ...
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grib2 idx files - dealing with bands with identical byte ranges
I am using GDAL to process grib2 data. This data is downloaded from NCEP using HTTP random access based on the byte ranges specified in the index file for each grib file. This .idx file looks like ...
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NOMADS grib file naming
I am looking to run
https://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/examples/usingpython.shtml#example_2
example on wave model data.
It refers to downloading grib files from
https://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/...
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Getting data closest to specified point in a grib file (Python)?
I have a grib file. I would like to be able to do something like this:
grib_data = grib_data_nearest_point(grib_file='grib_file.grib2', lat=15.5, lon=23.3)
Is there a library that can accomplish ...
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Grib Metadata with GDAL in Python
I'm trying to use GDAL in python to conditionally select raster bands from a grib file based on the time when the weather feature was measured (think temperature).
If I run GetMetadata() on the ...
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Python GDAL showing incorrect metadata for GRIB file
I'm trying to read a GRIB file containing ERA-5 single level data that I downloaded from the Climate Data Store (CDS, https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?...
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Produce a filtered version of a GRIB file
How can you produce a filtered GRIB file containing a subset of information from an original "bigger" GRIB file?
Let's say I have a GRIB file covering pressure, temperature and wind direction for a ...
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Transforming GRIB file into GeoTIFF that is correctly georeferenced using Python GDAL?
I am trying to transform a GRIB file into a GeoTIFF to be used in a ArcGIS, but am having trouble getting the image to display in the correct location. I have been able to create a GeoTIFF, using GDAL ...
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Handling raster data in a "rotated pole projection" with R?
My question is about using R to transform raster data from a rotated pole projection to a regular latlon grid - and then plotting it.
I am working with data from a numerical weather model, which is ...
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Coding or converting grib files
I want to convert my text file to grib file. But it seems not possible. How can I code grib files in Fortran or C#.
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Unknown projection of GRIB file
I have issues extracting geometrical shaped data from a GRIB raster of soil moisture. The file is for example https://gimms.gsfc.nasa.gov/SMOS/jbolten/FAS/L03/20100113_20100115.as1.grib
Using either ...
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Reprojecting raster file with unknown datum using ArcGIS Desktop?
I am new to GIS. I had a grib format data file and it's coordinate system shown below. I want to project it to WGS84, however, the datum of original file is unknown. I know I need to provide the datum ...
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Using GDAL to read data from GRIB file in Python?
I am attempting to use GDAL to read corresponding latitude, longitude, and temperature values from a GRIB file. I would like to store these data points in a 2-D list. I was able to do this using the ...
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Creating GeoJSON from GRIB2 format using Python?
My ultimate goal is to create geoJSON from GRIB2 format using Python in order to display it at the Leaflet-open-street map.
I have the following data extracted from GRIBs:
Multi-dimensional array ...
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Soil type info from grib file
I want to read soil type info from grib file, but dont know a variable name.
I expect that this variable contains a value between 1 and 9, corresponding to the possible different types of soil for ...
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How to displaying u and v components of wind data from a grib file as geoserver coverage?
I have generated a coverage view from a grib file (u,v components), but I can't style the result of both components.
Is there any way to style both wind components (u and v)?
My style is the next ...
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Seeking source for grib data download?
I am trying to integrate wind maps into an existing map and I would like to download the latest wind data for a local area like zyGrib does and then attach it into the map.
I am aware that there are ...
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WKT for EPSG:4326 with LON 0 to +360 instead of -180 to +180
I have GRIB2 files that seem to be in a projection similar to EPSG: 4326, except that instead of longitude between -180 and +180 it is between 0 and 360.
My intention is to get these files into ...
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GDAL program produces only zeroes, regardless
I have been working on this problem for a while now and have asked two seperate questions regarding it (Counting events from a GRIB raster, ValueError: array larger than output file, or offset off ...
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ValueError: array larger than output file, or offset off edge Python GDAL
I have been working on this iterator that would count instances where data conformed to a set of conditions over a number of rasters. I had people help me with other aspects of this script (Counting ...
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Counting events from a GRIB raster
I have been attempting to find a solution to the problem of limited access to GRIB_API(on Windows) through using GDAL in Python.
The main thing I want to achieve is to be able to set some conditions, ...
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How to analyze temporal change in wind?
I have daily data for several years (GRIB but also available as netCDF), I would like to investigate how the wind speed and direction has changed along the migratory route of a bird (in spring) and ...
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Dangerous wind from Grib file
I need to filter out the low speed winds from the values inside a Grib file. This is my first time using this kind of data. I can read the file, and iterate inside all the GeoSpatialValues (getting ...
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Interpolate grib2 data from GFS
I downloaded a grib2 file containing GFS data.
I need to get wind and temperature from altitudes ranging from 1000 ft to 42000 ft
I know the grib2 (GFS) only have data for specific "isobaricInhPa" ...
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PostGIS: Having trouble getting a value from a raster
I'm working on a subsetted grib file that I retrieved using this URL:
http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/filter_gfs_0p25.pl?file=gfs.t12z.pgrb2.0p25.f001&lev_925_mb=on&var_RH=on&subregion=...
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