Hi Zack,
I have contacted NCAR's Data Support Section (DSS).
They have a suite of fortran based BUFR subroutines.
It may be possible to invoke these subroutines from
NCL to access the data. Conceptually:
[1] Create a shared object using NCL's WRAPIT command line operator:
WRAPIT bufr.f [ will create bufr.so ]
[2] NCL script
external BUFR bufr.so
begin
diri = "./" ; input directory
fili = "bufr_file_name"
;create some arrays to hold the data
;returned from the shared object
T = new ( ... )
U = new ( ... )
[etc]
BUFR::read_bufr(diri+fili, T,U,...)
; create netCDF
diro = "./" ; output dir
filo = fili + ".nc"
fnc = addfile (diro+filo, "c")
;create file attributes
fnc@title = "netCDF version of BUFR file"
fnc@source= fili
fnc@creation_date = systemfunc("date")
fnc->T = T
fnc->U = U
end
[3] Note: netCDF is great for gridded data. It can be
used for station data. Wheteher it is well suited for
your needs is problematical. There are many possible
variations of how the netCDF file might look.
If all data has max of N levels. It may be reasonable to have
a station or bouy that may contain M variable
BOSTON = new ( (/NTIM,M,N/), "float")
WASH = new ( (/NTIM,M,N/), "float")
:
[4] BUFR is 'ugly'
D
>Delivered-To: shea@ucar.edu
>Delivered-To: ncl-talk@ucar.edu
>Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:30:39 -0500
>From: "Zachary Bronder" <Zachary.Bronder@noaa.gov>
>To: ncl-talk@ucar.edu
>Cc: Mark Vincent <Mark.Vincent@noaa.gov>
>Cc: Greg Mott <Greg.Mott@noaa.gov>
>Cc: John Kelley <John.Kelley@noaa.gov>
>
>Howdy,
>
>NOS wants to extract buoy data from BUFR files and write the data to NetCDF
>files that will be as forecast model input. What's the best way to do this? NCL
>has good tools for extracting GRIB data, and I've used this to output NetCDF
>files, but last time I checked there were no such tools for BUFR. Thanks in
advance.
>
>Zack
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