grib2 file

Dear Mary,

I've got a meteosat MPEF/fir file (fires) which is supposed to be grib2.

(See the attached small file).

I'm using the following NCL version (do not remember the last update):::

Copyright (C) 1995-2004 - All Rights Reserved

 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

 NCAR Command Language Version 4.2.0.a032

 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.

 See http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncl/ for more details.

This is what I get, if I try to open the file:::

ncl 2> f=addfile("200703270800-fir.grb","r")

fatal:NclGRIB: Could not open (200703270800-fir.grb) no grib records found

fatal:Could not open (200703270800-fir.grb)

Might this be related to the fact, that NCL is not reading grib2 files?

If the answer is YES, what can I do to read it, is the actual NCL version
able to read it?

Many thanks for any help with this, Adolf

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Adolf Stips

Global Environment Monitoring unit

CEC Joint Research Centre, TP 272

I-21020 Ispra, Italy

Tel: +39-0332-789876

Fax: +39-0332-789034

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