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Creating your own local parameters - ecCodes GRIB FAQ — Local parameters are required when one needs to store information which is not part of the standard definitions.
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How can I remove the data values and bitmap - ecCodes GRIB FAQ — This can be done by using the -d option as shown:
% grib_set -d0 in.grib out.grib
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Creating your own local definitions - ecCodes GRIB FAQ — Local definitions are required when one needs to store information which is not part of the standard GRIB header. This might be local parameters or local definitions.
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Is ecCodes thread-safe - ecCodes FAQ — Great care has been taken to ensure this. Note: the package needs to be built with either Pthreads (POSIX Threads) or OpenMP support.
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Keys and their types - ecCodes GRIB FAQ — Some keys like shortName are strings (native type "string") and it doesn't make any sense to set them as an integer or float as they are not possible values for the key.
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grib_to_netcdf: skips Control Forecast when I convert Ensemble Forecast data - ecCodes GRIB FAQ — If you have a file with both Control and Perturbed forecasts, grib_to_netcdf will only convert the pf. Normally from 51 members in the GRIB file, only 50 appear in the netCDF.
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grib_to_netcdf: Why do I get the error "Wrong number of fields... Try using the -T option" - ecCodes GRIB FAQ — You try to retrieve data from the ECMWF data archive in netCDF format but the retrieval fails with this message
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