GRIB2 - GRID DEFINITION TEMPLATE 3.12

Transverse Mercator

Created 04/04/2013


Octet No. Contents
15 Shape of the Earth (See Code Table 3.2)
16 Scale Factor of radius of spherical Earth
17-20 Scale value of radius of spherical Earth
21 Scale factor of major axis of oblate spheroid Earth
22-25 Scaled value of major axis of oblate spheroid Earth
26 Scale factor of minor axis of oblate spheroid Earth
27-30 Scaled value of minor axis of oblate spheroid Earth
31-34 Ni - number of points along i-axis
35-38 Nj - number of points along j-axis
39-42 LaR - Geographic latidue of reference point
43-46 LoR - Geographic longitude of reference point
47 Resolution and component flags (see Flag Table 3.3)
48-51 m - scale factor at reference point ratio of distance on map to distance on spheroid (IEEE 32-bit floating-point values)
52-55 XR - false easting, i-direction coordinate of reference point in units of 10-2m
56-59 YR - false northing, j-direction coordinate of reference point in units of 10-2m
60 Scanning mode flags (see Flag Table 3.4)
61-64 Di - i-direction increment length in units of 10-2m
65-68 Dj - j-direction increment length in units of 10-2m
69-72 x1 - i-direction coordinate of the first grid point in units of 10-2m
73-76 y1 - j-direction coordinate of the first grid point in units of 10-2m
77-80 x2 - i-direction coordinate of the last grid point in units of 10-2m
81-84 y2 - j-direction coordinate of the last grid point in units of 10-2m



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