Looking at GRIBs

Incidentally,

If you want to look at what I’m looking at when I’m viewing GRIBs derived from GFS data then :

1. Send an email to query@saildocs.com with any Subject and the body of the email being:
send GFS:18S,51S,140E,160W|2,2|0,6..168|PRMSL,WIND,WAVES,RAIN

2. You will soon receive an email contain the GRIB data. Use ViewFax to view this data using drag/drop and/or File Open as you prefer.

3. ViewFax can be downloaded from http://www.siriuscyber.net/wxfax/ (see beta version at bottom of page)

NOTE: Another popular GRIB file viewer, ugrib, is unable to display GRIB files that contain data spanning 180 longitude.

Have fun