wgrib2 revised 7.2016
wgrib2 is a program to read/write grib2 files.
For documentation, see
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/wesley/wgrib2/index.html
For documentation of commonly used program options, type
wgrib2
For documentation of all program options, type
wgrib2 -help all
For documenation of any program option that is poorly described on-line
or by the "wgrib2 -help all", check the source code by searching
for "f_{option}" where the option does not include the minus sign.
Default makefile options
USE_NETCDF3=1
USE_NETCDF4=0
USE_REGEX=1
USE_TIGGE=1
USE_MYSQL=0
USE_IPOLATES=0
USE_UDF=0
USE_OPENMP=1
USE_PROJ4=0
USE_WMO_VALIDATION=0
DISABLE_TIMEZONE=0
MAKE_FTN_API=0
USE_G2CLIB=0
USE_PNG=1
USE_JASPER=1
USE_AEC=1
To compile without netcdf, set USE_NETCDF3=0 and USE_NETCDF4=0
To compile without netcdf v3, set USE_NETCDF3=1 and USE_NETCDF4=0
To compile without netcdf v4, set USE_NETCDF3=0 and USE_NETCDF4=1
For netcdf4, the netcdf4 and hdf5 libraries are usually not included
in the wgrib2.tgz file to save space. The makefile suggests
how to download the netcdf4 and hdf5 libraries.
If you have non-POSIX C compiler system that doesn't include <regex.h>, then
you have to set USE_REGEX=0. This disables the use of regular expressions.
No harm to keep TIGGE support on. USE_TIGGE=1
Support for Mysql is an option. You have to modify the makefile to indicate
the locations of the mysql includes and libraries and set USE_MYSQL=1
The option -new_grid uses the ipolates library to do the interpolation.
The required libraries are written in fortran and a few compilers are
already supported in the makefile. For other compilers, you are on
your own. The source code and makefile will have to be modified to use
the ipolates option. Consult a local expert if you want to install this
optional package. No help is available from NCEP for installing the package.
User Defined Functions (UDF) allow you to run shell commands from
within wgrib2. UDF are not available on windows machines unless
<unistd.h> is implimented by the compiler (cygwin, MinGW). For
the security paranoid, turn off UDF by USE_UDF=0.
OpenMP allows wgrib2 to run on many cores for a faster run time. See
README.openmp. The USE_OPENMP option will compile wgrib2 with openmp
for several compilers.
Proj4 is a open-source geolocation library. Usually the faster gctpc library
is used for geolocation. At the current time, Proj4 does not add any
capabilty over gctpc.
Wgrib2 has been used to test proposals to the WMO grib standard. Developers
might want to have conditional compilation of the tests using
#ifdef WMO_VALIDATION
... test code ...
#endif
and compile using
USE_WMO_VALIDATION=1
If you have a non-POSIX C compiler system that doesn't support time zones
or supports time zones in a non-POSIX manner, then you have to set
DISABLE_TIMEZONE to 1.
Wgrib2 is both a stand alone utility and a library that is callable
from both C and Fortran. To enable the making the wgrib2 library, you
have to set
MAKE_FTN_API=1
In older versions of wgrib2, the g2clib was the default decoder of grib files.
In the current version, you can use g2clib as an optional decoder. The main
use of compiling wgrib2 with g2clib is for testing g2clib.
USE_G2CLIB=1
Support for the png, jpeg2000 and CDCSD(AEC) compression can be turned off through
the following options.
USE_PNG=0
USE_JASPER=0
USE_AEC=0
You might want to turn off the various compressions because
1) libraries do not compile correctly (icc and pgcc have problems with Jasper)
2) reduce the executable size and compile time
3) problems with cross-compiling