njuychen / pygrib

Python interface for reading and writing GRIB data

Python module for reading and writing GRIB files (edition 1 and edition 2).

GRIB is the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) standard file format for the exchange of weather data.

Provides a interfaces for the ECWMF GRIB_API C library and the NCEP grib2 C library, including command line utilities for listing (grib_list) and repacking (grib_repack) GRIB files.

Quickstart:

• Clone the github repository, or download a source release from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygrib.

• Copy setup.cfg.template to setup.cfg, open in text editor, follow instructions in comments for editing. If you are using the old grib_api library instead of the new eccodes library, be sure to uncomment the last line setup.cfg.

• Run 'python setup.py build'

• Run 'python setup.py install' (with sudo if necessary)

• Run 'python test.py' to test your pygrib installation.

For full installation instructions and API documentation, see https://jswhit.github.io/pygrib.

Sample iPython notebooks illustrating pygrib usage:

• http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/jswhit/8635665
• https://github.com/scollis/HRRR/blob/master/notebooks/HRRR%20Grib.ipynb

Questions or comments - contact Jeff Whitaker [e-mail] or use https://github.com/jswhit/pygrib/issues.