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I'm trying to get the uvIndex of all the lat,lng present in a grib2 file. This is the link from where I'm getting the file. The problem is I'm not able to understand the structure of the file so that I can get the data. I'm using pygrib to read the file.

Here's the code I've tried:

grbs = pygrib.open('uv.t12z.grbf01.grib2')
grb = grbs.select(name='UV index')[0]
print grb.data(23.5,55.5)

What I'm trying to achieve is either iterate over all the lat longs and print the corresponding uvIndex value or enter a lat long and get the corresponding value. Read the docs of pygrib but couldn't find any suitable command that will serve my purpose. Please help.

Rahul
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You have to iterate though GRIB file and find desirable record, then get data, like here:

for g in grbs:
    print g.shortName, g.typeOfLevel, g.level # print info about all GRIB records and check names 
    if (g.shortName == shortName and g.typeOfLevel == typeOfLevel and g.level == level):
        tmp = np.array(g.values)
        # now work with tmp as numpy array

To get lat and lon arrays use: lt, ln = g.latlons(), g - element of grbs.

Read the examples in Section python at https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/GRIB/GRIB+API+examples (pygrib use this library to read GRIB).

The fastest way to get data from large GRIB file is to make index:

# use attributes what you want to build index
indx = pygrib.index(gribfile,'typeOfLevel','level','parameterName') 

# important: msg is an array and may have more then one record
# get U wind component on 10 m above ground
msg = indx.select(level = 10, typeOfLevel = "heightAboveGround",
 parameterName = "U U-component of wind m s**-1")
u10 = np.array(msg[0].values)
# get V wind component on 10 m above ground
msg = indx.select(level = 10, typeOfLevel = "heightAboveGround",
 parameterName = "V V-component of wind m s**-1")
v10 = np.array(msg[0].values)
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