Delft-Fews can read grib files and display these. the Ugrib program (http://www.grib.us/) can be used to download (sections) of the CFS gobal weather model. If you follow the following steps you can use this program to download files and import them directly into Delft-Fews. Alternatively you can use a perl script to get the data directly from the nomad6 server using the ftp2u system. This script is attached to this page.

Using Ugrib

  1. Configure Delft-Fews to read the grib data (see below)
  2. Download and install Ugrib (free registration needed)
  3. Setup Ugrib to download the grib files to the grib import dir (e.g. Import/UGrib) of Delft-Fews
  4. Select a region in UGrib and download this
  5. Run the import in Delft-Fews -> data should be visible in the Grid display

Using getgfs.pl

See the help info in the getgfs script. Getgfs stores the data from different layers (10m, 2m, surface) in different subdirectories.

Configure Delft-Fews for gfs grib files

  1. Create the Import/UGRib directory

  2. Create the ID mapping for the UGrib import using the following mapping (see attached example)  (IdImportUGrib 1.00 default.xml):

    internalParameter

    internalLocation

    externalParameter

    externalLocation

    Pressure.msl

    UGrib

    2

    UGrib

    P.nwp.forecast

    UGrib

    61

    UGrib

    Wind.u

    UGrib

    33

    UGrib

    Wind.v

    UGrib

    34

    UGrib

  3. Create an Import moduleInstance for the grib files (e.g. ImportUGrib, see example) and add the the moduleinstancedescriptors (ImportUGrib 1.00 default.xml)
  4. Add the new module to the import workflow
  5. configure the Grid display the display the grib files (GridDisplay 1.00 default.xml)

Example XML files are attached to this page

Example Using Ugrib

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