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Software tools and libaries for reading the OSI SAF products
General format documentationThe OSI SAF products are available in GRIB and HDF5 format. Documentation of these format can be found at the institutions responsible for the formats:
GRIB (WMO): http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/WMOCodes/ManualCodes/WMO306vol-I-2PartB.pdf
More details about these formats can be found in the Product Manuals available for each product under Documentation.
Software libraries/toolsDifferent software libraries/tools for reading the products exist, both developed by the OSI SAF team, the institutions responsible for formats and others. GRIB:
A tool for reading GRIB files can be found at ECMWF under
For Microsoft Windows users there also exist a software for viewing the
GRIB products. Have a look at this web page: HDF5:
A library (libosihdf) has been developed in the OSI SAF to read the OSI SAF HL products on
HDF5 format. This library can be downloaded by saving this link:
libosihdf5.tar.gz.
The library comes with a GNU Autoconf interface, use
A package for reading and visualizing the HDF5 products in the
R software has been developed by the
OSI SAF. This package can be downloaded by saving this link:
osisaf_0.1.tar.gz.
The package requires the libosihdf to be available and use the standard R implementation
procedure:
Product grid position filesThe latitude and longitude positions of the grid points are not provided on the GRIB and HDF5 files, just on the NetCDF files. Therefor we provide separate static HDF5 files with two fields giving the latitude and longitude of each grid point. These files can be download by saving these links: Please contact osisaf-manager[at]met.no if you have any trouble using these tools.
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