Hey Norman,

Interesting idea. I think it will be a little bit tricky because it is hard to 
uniquely label each band in a grib file.

I actually use a modified version of gdal_translate where I can specify the 
GRIB_ELEMENT, GRIB_SHORTNAME, and GRIB_FORECAST seconds that I want to match to 
extract specific bands. This lets me process similar grib files without having 
to map band numbers explicitly. I probably didn’t do this the best way, maybe 
it could use an SQL format like -where uses.

Just some quick thoughts,
Zac


> On Sep 6, 2017, at 10:39 AM, Norman Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently working on representing a grib file as a netCDF file within 
> GDAL. My plan is that if a user specifies the netCDF driver and opens a grib 
> file then the metadata from the grib will be represented as a netCDF and the 
> data can be read through that driver.
> 
> It may seem a bit odd since GDAL has a fully functional grib driver but it 
> matches the use of the netCDF model when reading grib within most 
> meteorological packages and enables me (and hopefully others) to match the 
> metadata conventions in other packages.
> 
> Any feedback appreciated, I am working on this now and will have code for 
> review shortly.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Norman
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