! (C) Copyright 2005- ECMWF. ! ! This software is licensed under the terms of the Apache Licence Version 2.0 ! which can be obtained at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. ! ! In applying this licence, ECMWF does not waive the privileges and immunities granted to it by ! virtue of its status as an intergovernmental organisation nor does it submit to any jurisdiction. ! ! ! Description: How to control decimal precision when packing GRIB fields. ! ! ! program precision use eccodes implicit none integer(kind=4) :: size1 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=0 integer(kind=4) :: decimalPrecision, bitsPerValue1, bitsPerValue2 integer :: i, iret call codes_open_file(infile, & '../../data/regular_latlon_surface_constant.grib1', 'r') call codes_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 codes_grib_new_from_file(infile, igrib) ! bitsPerValue before changing the packing parameters call codes_get(igrib, 'bitsPerValue', bitsPerValue1) ! get the size of the values array call codes_get_size(igrib, "values", size1) allocate (values1(size1), stat=iret) allocate (values2(size1), stat=iret) ! get data values before changing the packing parameters call codes_get(igrib, "values", values1) ! setting decimal precision=2 means that 2 decimal digits ! are preserved when packing. decimalPrecision = 2 call codes_set(igrib, "changeDecimalPrecision", decimalPrecision) ! bitsPerValue after changing the packing parameters call codes_get(igrib, "bitsPerValue", bitsPerValue2) ! get data values after changing the packing parameters call codes_get(igrib, "values", values2) ! computing error maxa = 0 maxr = 0 maxv = values2(1) minv = maxv do i = 1, size1 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)) end if if (a .gt. maxa) maxa = a if (r .gt. maxr) maxr = r end do 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 codes_write(igrib, outfile) call codes_release(igrib) call codes_close_file(infile) call codes_close_file(outfile) deallocate (values1) deallocate (values2) end program precision