! Copyright 2005-2007 ECMWF ! ! Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License which ! incorporates the terms and conditions of version 3 of the GNU ! General Public License. ! See LICENSE and gpl-3.0.txt for details. ! ! ! ! Description: how to control decimal precision when packing fields. ! ! ! Author: Enrico Fucile ! ! ! program precision use grib_api implicit none integer(kind = 4) :: size integer :: infile,outfile integer :: igrib real(kind = 8), dimension(:), allocatable :: values1 real(kind = 8), dimension(:), allocatable :: values2 real(kind = 8) :: maxa,a,maxv,minv,maxr,r integer( kind = 4) :: decimalPrecision,bitsPerValue1,bitsPerValue2 integer :: i, iret call grib_open_file(infile, & '../../data/regular_latlon_surface_constant.grib1','r') call grib_open_file(outfile, & '../../data/regular_latlon_surface_prec.grib1','w') ! a new grib message is loaded from file ! igrib is the grib id to be used in subsequent calls call grib_new_from_file(infile,igrib) ! bitsPerValue before changing the packing parameters call grib_get(igrib,'bitsPerValue',bitsPerValue1) ! get the size of the values array call grib_get_size(igrib,"values",size) allocate(values1(size), stat=iret) allocate(values2(size), stat=iret) ! get data values before changing the packing parameters*/ call grib_get(igrib,"values",values1) ! setting decimal precision=2 means that 2 decimal digits ! are preserved when packing. decimalPrecision=2 call grib_set(igrib,"changeDecimalPrecision", & decimalPrecision) ! bitsPerValue after changing the packing parameters call grib_get(igrib,"bitsPerValue",bitsPerValue2) ! get data values after changing the packing parameters call grib_get(igrib,"values",values2) ! computing error maxa=0 maxr=0 maxv=values2(1) minv=maxv do i=1,size a=abs(values2(i)-values1(i)) if ( values2(i) .gt. maxv ) maxv=values2(i) if ( values2(i) .lt. maxv ) minv=values2(i) if ( values2(i) .ne. 0 ) then r=abs((values2(i)-values1(i))/values2(i)) endif if ( a .gt. maxa ) maxa=a if ( r .gt. maxr ) maxr=r enddo write(*,*) "max absolute error = ",maxa write(*,*) "max relative error = ",maxr write(*,*) "min value = ",minv write(*,*) "max value = ",maxv write(*,*) "old number of bits per value=",bitsPerValue1 write(*,*) "new number of bits per value=",bitsPerValue2 ! write modified message to a file call grib_write(igrib,outfile) call grib_release(igrib) call grib_close_file(infile) call grib_close_file(outfile) deallocate(values1) deallocate(values2) end program precision