Maybe I should also follow up on this and indicate that one variable I really want is the Veg Type defiinitions from the files. It exists in the file from joewheatley's example, (VGTYP_P0_L1_GGA0) but it is on a Gaussian lat/lon grid. I've downloaded some of the gfs files from the 0.5 x 0.5 degree output, but I don't find the variable.
Thanks again! On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:33 AM, John <washa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to find documentation online that provides guidance on what > all the variables are that are in the NCEP model output grib files. > There are many NCEP models, so to be clear, I'm referring to the GFS > 0.5x0.5 degree product. I was looking at this nice blog: > > http://joewheatley.net/ncep-global-forecast-system/ > > and the files that are available here: > ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/data/nccf/com/gfs/prod > > And I see this link: > http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/products/gfs/ > > But looking at a file and the variables: > In [112]: ncep.variables.keys() > Out[112]: > ['PRES_P8_L223_GLL0_avg', > 'TOZNE_P0_L200_GLL0', > 'PRES_P0_L242_GLL0', > 'HGT_P0_L100_GLL0', > 'VVEL_P0_L100_GLL0', > 'UGRD_P0_L6_GLL0', > 'HGT_P0_L7_GLL0', > 'CIN_P0_2L108_GLL0', > 'ULWRF_P8_L8_GLL0_avg', > 'PRES_P0_L109_GLL0', > (snip) > > is somewhat clear in most cases, but is there a table which directly > maps these online?. Also, you can of course look at the 'long_name', > 'level', and 'level_type' attributes of each variable, but I'm looking > more or less for an online table showing all this. Maybe I need to > script it quickly ;) > > Thanks, > john > -- Configuration `````````````````````````` Plone 2.5.3-final, CMF-1.6.4, Zope (Zope 2.9.7-final, python 2.4.4, linux2), Python 2.6 PIL 1.1.6 Mailman 2.1.9 Postfix 2.4.5 Procmail v3.22 2001/09/10 Basemap: 1.0 Matplotlib: 1.0.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
