ECMWF switch to GRIB2

[jhamilton]

Hi,

ECMWF is increasing their number of levels in the next few months and the model level data will only be
available in GRIB2. Are there any plans to convert GRIB2ARL [and other conversion programs] to use
GRIB2 or will I just have to convert the ECMWF data to GRIB1 before using it.

Thanks

James Hamilton
Met Eireann -- Irish Meteorological Service

[roland.draxler]

A GRIB2 to ARL converter is supplied both with the PC and LINUX versions. You can find the program (api2arl) in the /data2arl directory. Only the source code is provided and it needs to be compiled using the ECMWF grib_api libraries. Some customization may be required depending upon the data fields that you normally download.

[jhamilton]

Thanks .. just saw the reply .