Some common GUI and command-line tools for reading and visualising GRIB files are:
- Panoply by NASA
- ArcGIS by ESRI
- QGIS - QGIS is a graphical open-source software that can visualise GRIB files (requires Crayfish plugin).
- NCL - NCAR Command Language. To read, analyze and visualize GRIB data, as well convert it to other gridded data formats.
- CDO - (Climate Data Operators) is an analysis tool for geoscientific data with GRIB support.