Gdescribe: Extract parameter/time/level information from a GRIB message...

In harphub/Rgrib2: Read and work with GRIB binary files

Extract parameter/time/level information from a GRIB message or file

Description

Wrappers for Ginfo that do some further intepretation.'

Usage

  Gdescribe(gribhandle)
  Gtime(gribhandle,...)
  Glevel(gribhandle,...)

Arguments

gribhandle	A GRIBhandle.
...	Options for Ginfo.

Details

All these functions are called by Gdec to extract specific information. Gdescribe uses information from grib_api. Some local GRIB-1 tables may not be known to grib_api, and they may be made accessible via the data table extratab.

Gtime and Glevel get specific information from a GRIBhandle.

Value

• Gdescribe() returns a list of parameter name, origin and level.

• Gtime returns a string representation of forecast date and range.

• Glevel returns level information.

See Also

Ginfo, Gopen,extratab

harphub/Rgrib2 documentation built on June 4, 2024, 7:27 a.m.