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Description
For the projects TIGGE, S2S and UERRA the exact data format, WMO compliant GRIB2, is required to allow easy data processing and intercomparison. Read in Data encoding checking tools more information about tigge_check and grib_check.py tools. Apart from encoding verification, theses tools can do also some basic quality control by checking the allowed value ranges, if they were defined, for each parameter.
Please be aware that some previously allowed valid ranges can become obsolete at some point e.g. due to model upgrade to higher resolution meaning in general different values of some parameters. Because of that a continuous set up updates are needed so it is important to use the latest versions of the tools. Also for some parameters the allowed ranges must not be defined due to various reasons. In some cases the allowed limits for different data sets or data origins might also exist because of known special features or deficiencies of some related model's outputs.
Examples of tigge_check usage
Checking TIGGE data
module load eccodes |
Examples of grib_check.py usage
Checking LC-WVF data
$BIN/grib_check.py lw.grib2 |
Installating grib_check.py
The prerequisite is to have eccodes python modules available in the system. The tool itself consist of two python scripts attached to this page:
The set up file contains mostly a python dictionary with the allowed ranges for parameters. These ranges can be easily tuned if needed.
Please be aware that this tool is not part of ecCodes yet as is still under development. For example some code refactoring or performance optimisation is needed to speed up big files processing.