NEMSIO

The NCEPLIBS-nemsio library and utilities perform I/O for the NCEP models using NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) format. The NCEPLIBS-nemsio code is part of the NCEPLIBS project.

For complete documentation see https://noaa-emc.github.io/NCEPLIBS-nemsio/.

For more information about NEMS, see the NEMS NMMB documentation site.

To submit bug reports, feature requests, or other code-related issues including installation and usage questions, please create a GitHub issue. For general NCEPLIBS inquiries, contact Edward Hartnett (secondary point of contact Alex Richert).

Authors

M.Iredell, J.Wang, Hang Lei, mahajan, other NCEP/EMC developers.

Code manager: Hang Lei

Prerequisites

This library requires the NCEPLIBS-bacio and the NCEPLIBS-w3emc libraries.

This library also requires an MPI-enabled Fortran compiler.

Installing

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/path/to/bacio;/path/to/w3emc" ..
make -j2
make install

Utilities

• nemsio_get - get the value of a variable in the file
• nemsio_read - read a nemsio file and print statistics to screen
• nemsio_chgdate - change datetime stamp in the nemsio file
• mkgfsnemsioctl - create GrADS ctl file to read nemsio data in GrADS

Testing

ctest is used to read a test file.

Disclaimer

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