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The version of GRIB-API which can recognise all UERRA parameters is currently under development and should be released to some extent by the 1st half of June. Until then please use the version 1.15.0 which can identify UERRA products as per below (paragraph 1).

 

GRIB2 encoding details

Section 1
Octets Key nameValueDescription
6-7centre8282 (Sweden)
10tablesVersion17 
20productionStatusOfProcessedData

8

 

operational UERRA products

  9test UERRA products
21typeOfProcessedData0Analysis products
  1Forecast products


Deterministic system (both analysis and forecast products)

Section 4
OctetsKey name

Value

Description

8-9productDefinitionTemplateNumber

0

Analysis and Forecast products (instantaneous)

(Analysis or forecast at a horizontal level or in a horizontal layer at a point in time (grib2/tables/17/4.0.table))

  8

Analysis and Forecast products (statisticially processed = accumulated/min/max values )

(Average, accumulation, extreme values or other statistically processed values at a horizontal level or in a horizontal layer in a continuous or non-continuous time interval (grib2/tables/17/4.0.table))

Ensembe DA system (both analysis and forecast products)

 

Ensemble (section 4, template 4.61Description () 
Section 4
OctetsKey name

Value

Description

8-9productDefinitionTemplateNumber

1

 

Analysis and Forecast products (instantaneous)

(Individual ensemble forecast, control and perturbed, at a horizontal level or in a horizontal layer at a point in time  (grib2/tables/17/4.0.table))

  11

Analysis and Forecast products (statisticially processed = accumulated/min/max values )

(Individual ensemble forecast, control and perturbed, at a horizontal level or in a horizontal layer, in a continuous or non-continuous time interval (grib2/tables/17/4.0.table))

)

OctetsKey nameValue

35type of ensemble forecast255 missing 
36perturbation number2Example for 2nd eps member of ensemble with 4 members (0/1/2/3)
37number of forecasts in ensemble4 

 

Examples of GRIB2 files

 deterministicensemble DA
 ANFCANFC
Accumulations    
Instantaneous    
Maximum since previous post-processing    
Minimum since previous post-processing  

Parameter on soil level

(soil temperature on soil level 1)

grib

dump

grib

dump

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