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GRIB (Gridded Binary) (GRIB)
A World Meteorological Organization data format for compact exchange of gridded meteorological and oceanographic fields.
GRIB files may contain forecast wind, pressure, precipitation, temperature, waves, currents or other parameters on a defined grid at stated times and levels. GRIB2 provides richer metadata and encoding than GRIB1.
A GRIB viewer turns model fields into charts but does not add observations, forecaster interpretation or local corrections. Users must check model, run time, valid time, units, grid, ensemble member and known limitations.
Terms with the same meaning:
GRIB1, GRIB2
