mogolola/pygrib

PYGRIB - Python Module for Reading GRIB files version 1.9.6

PYGRIB - Python Module for Reading GRIB files version 1.9.6

General Info

Pygris is a Python module for reading and writing GRIB (editions 1 and 2) files. GRIB is the World Meterological Organization (WMO) standard for distributing gridded data. The module is a python interface to the GRIB API C library from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

Installation

Make sure first that the appropriate configuration scripts pertaining to your system are defined. You will need the following scripts to be defined:

  ${PROTEUS}/externalPackages/versionsConfig/versions.${PROTEUS_ARCH}
  ${PROTEUS}/externalPackages/jasperConfig/configure.${PROTEUS_ARCH}
  ${PROTEUS}/externalPackages/grib_apiConfig/configure.${PROTEUS_ARCH}

For manual installation of PYGRIB you will to install the following dependecies first (if you're doing it away from a full build of all externalPackages within Proteus):

   JASPER
   GRIB_API
   PYPROJ

You do so in externalPackages directory:

cd ${PROTEUS}/externalPackages

and installing each via:

make install_jasper
make install_grib_api
make install_pyproj

Then finally you can install and test PYGRIB by:

 make install_pygrib
 make test_pygrib

That should do it!:

 If you have question, you can contact either:
 Matt Malej   ==> [email protected]
 Tyler Hesser ==> [email protected]