Abstract:
Grib2 is more complicated than grib1 and many methods of reading and
writing grib2 have become more complicated. Since we should be
thinking about science rather than the grib routines, the interface for
grib I/O should be at a high level and simple to use. With the
wgrib2api module, reading and writing is simplified to only requiring 4
functions. HPC support is done with 3 more functions which are
used to transfer of program and subroutine buffers.