| VALUE |
MEANING |
|
0
|
Latitude/Longitude Grid - Equidistant Cylindrical or Plate
Carree projection |
|
1
|
Mercator Projection Grid |
|
2
|
Gnomonic Projection Grid |
|
3
|
Lambert Conformal, secant or tangent, conical or bipolar
(normal or oblique) projection |
|
4
|
Gaussian Latitude/Longitude |
|
5
|
Polar Stereographic projection Grid |
|
6
|
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection |
|
7
|
Simple polyconic projection |
|
8
|
Albers equal-area, secant or tangent, conic or bi-polar,
projection |
|
9
|
Miller's cylindrical projection |
|
10
|
Rotated latitude/longitude grid |
|
11-12
|
Reserved |
|
13
|
Oblique Lambert conformal, secant or tangent, conical or
bipolar, projection |
|
14
|
Rotated Gaussian latitude/longitude grid |
|
15-19
|
Reserved |
|
20
|
Stretched latitude/longitude grid |
|
21-23
|
Reserved |
|
24
|
Stretched Gaussian latitude/longitude grid |
|
25-29
|
Reserved |
|
30
|
Stretched and rotated latitude/longitude grids |
|
31-33
|
Reserved |
|
34
|
Stretched and rotated Gaussian latitude/longitude grids |
|
35-49
|
Reserved |
|
50
|
Spherical Harmonic Coefficients |
|
51-59
|
Reserved |
|
60
|
Rotated spherical harmonic coefficients |
|
61-69
|
Reserved |
|
70
|
Stretched spherical harmonics |
|
71-79
|
Reserved |
|
80
|
Stretched and rotated spherical harmonic coefficients |
|
81-89
|
Reserved |
|
90
|
Space view perspective or orthographic |
|
91-191
|
(reserved - see Manual on Codes) |
|
192-254
|
Reserved for local use |
| NCEP usage follows |
|
192-200
|
Undefined |
|
201
|
Arakawa semi-staggered E-grid on rotated latitude/longitude
grid-point array (1-dimensional)
|
|
202
|
Arakawa filled E-grid on rotated latitude/longitude grid-point array (1-dimensional)
|
203
|
Arakawa semi-staggered E-grid
on rotated latitude/longitude grid-point array (2-dimensional) |
204
|
Curvilinear Orthogonal Grid |
205
|
Arakawa Non-E Staggered
rotated Latitude/Longitude Grid |
| 206-253 |
Undefined |
254
|
Grid point locations specified by auxilliary file or GRIB message
|