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Jon Oxtoby

Jon Oxtoby

GRIB Tables 101

GRIB Tables 101

Work with GRIB data long enough and you inevitably will hit the issue where your GRIB reader doesn't know how to translate a parameter. Usually when this happens, instead of seeing a recognizable field name like "reflectivity" or "REFD", you'll see something

Accessing individual fields in GRIBs (even remotely)

Accessing individual fields in GRIBs (even remotely)

A GRIB file consists of one or more messages, or records. Each message consists of a 2-dimensional grid of numeric values and all the metadata to required to identify, geolocate, and unpack the data*. Each message is completely independent of the others, meaning that you can take a message out

5 simple improvement areas for your weather data storage

5 simple improvement areas for your weather data storage

Meteorological data can be a bit of a beast to deal with from a storage perspective. Ideally you want your data physically close to your compute resources to reduce network latency during access, and uncompressed to optimize read times and allow you to target just the bytes you need. But