Introduction

Inventory a GRIB2 file.

The degrib2 utility prints a summary of a GRIB2 file.

The degrib2 output for NCEPLIBS-g2c test data file seaice.t00z.grb.grib2 is:

''' >degrib2 seaice.t00z.grb.grib2

GRIB MESSAGE 1 starts at 1

SECTION 0: 10 2 51345 SECTION 1: 7 0 2 1 1 2022 11 17 0 0 0 0 1 Contains 0 Local Sections and 1 data fields.

FIELD 1 SECTION 0: 10 2 SECTION 1: 7 0 2 1 1 2022 11 17 0 0 0 0 1 SECTION 3: 0 259200 0 0 0 GRID TEMPLATE 3. 0 : 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 720 360 0 0 89750000 250000 48 -89750000 359750000 500000 500000 0 NO Optional List Defining Number of Data Points. PRODUCT TEMPLATE 4. 0: ( PARAMETER = ICEC 10 2 0 ) 2 0 2 0 120 0 0 1 0 101 0 0 255 0 0 FIELD: ICEC Mean Sea Level valid 0 hour after 2022111700:00:00 NO Optional Vertical Coordinate List. Num. of Data Points = 259200 NO BIT-MAP DRS TEMPLATE 5. 40 : 0 0 2 8 0 0 255 Data Values: Num. of Data Points = 259200 Num. of Data Undefined = 0 ( PARM= ICEC ) : MIN= 0.00000000 AVE= 0.64117813 MAX= 1.56999993

Total Number of Fields Found = 1 '''