wgrib2: -text
Introduction
The -text option writes the grid values to a specified
file as a text (ascii) file. The default format (-header) is (per decoded grib message)
NX NY
val-1
val-2
...
val-(NX*NY)
Where NX and NY are the dimension of the grid and val-N is the Nth grid
point in WE:SN order. When the -no_header option is used, the format is
val-1
val-2
...
val-(NX*NY)
The default order of the data is WE:SN which differs from
wgrib's order which is equivalent to the "-order raw" in wgrib2.
Another difference is that wgrib's -text option requires a filename.
The undefined value is 9.999e20. The format of the output is unchanged
from wgrib except the order, number of columns and precision can
be altered by the user.
Usage
-text file_name
"-" sends the data to the terminal/stdout
Example
$ wgrib2 test.grb2 -s | grep ":RH:2 m" | wgrib2 -i test.grb2 -text data.txt
285:36796469:d=2005090200:RH:2 m above ground:60 hour fcst
The above line extracts the 2 meter RH from file test.grb2 and writes it in data.txt
See also:
-netcdf,
-spread,
-bin,
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