$ wgrib Portable Grib decoder for NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis etc. it slices, dices v1.8.1.0b (5-10) Wesley Ebisuzaki DWD-tables 2,201-205 (11-28-2005) Helmut P. Frank spectral: Luis Kornblueh (MPI) usage: /data4/akira/tools/wgrib/wgrib [grib file] [options] Inventory/diagnostic-output selections -s/-v short/verbose inventory -V diagnostic output (not inventory) (none) regular inventory Options -PDS/-PDS10 print PDS in hex/decimal -GDS/-GDS10 print GDS in hex/decimal -verf print forecast verification time -ncep_opn/-ncep_rean default T62 NCEP grib table -4yr print year using 4 digits -min print minutes -ncep_ens ensemble info encoded in ncep format Decoding GRIB selection -d [record number|all] decode record number -p [byte position] decode record at byte position -i decode controlled by stdin (inventory list) (none) no decoding Options -text/-ieee/-grib/-bin convert to text/ieee/grib/bin (default) -nh/-h output will have no headers/headers (default) -dwdgrib output dwd headers, grib (do not append) -H output will include PDS and GDS (-bin/-ieee only) -append append to output file -o [file] output file name, 'dump' is default Misc -cmc [file] use NCEP tables for CMC (dangerous)