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Re: Writing large [x,x,x,x] files [message #24262 is a reply to message #24171]

Mon, 19 March 2001 07:31

Martin Schultz
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Registered: August 1997

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Craig Markwardt wrote:
>
>
> I'll chime in.
>
> Astronomy folks use FITS for data exchange, but other people can too.
> I know that a lot of people complain that FITS is archaic but it's
> pretty effective,

Oh let me advocate GRIB, a format commonly used by meteorological
agencies (and established as standard by the WMO). It's archaic, it
has a complicated user interface, but it is effective in packing data.
And, most wonderful of all: if you would go for it, we would finally
get a nice interface to read and write GRIB files from IDL ;-)
[without call_external, i.e.]

Cheers,

Don't-take-me-serious-Martin

PS: The fact that there are no GRIB utilities available in any library
that I know of shows that not too many met people are using IDL. Or is
everyone happy with the wgrib solution??

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		Writing large [x,x,x,x] files By: Sean Heukels on Fri, 09 March 2001 07:33
		Re: Writing large [x,x,x,x] files By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 09 March 2001 15:06
		Re: Writing large [x,x,x,x] files By: Martin Schultz on Mon, 19 March 2001 07:31
		Re: Writing large [x,x,x,x] files By: Liam E. Gumley on Fri, 09 March 2001 09:58
		Re: Writing large [x,x,x,x] files By: Paul van Delst on Mon, 19 March 2001 08:49

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