Last updated: January 2013
The local use section can be defined by the originating centre. DWD already defined several local use sections, depending on the products. There also is a common COSMO local use section. This table lists the GRIB2 meta data and associated grib_api keys for the different local use sections.
| Octets | Key Name | Comments | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1-4 | section2Length | Length of section in octets (depends on the special section) | ||||||||||||
| 5 | numberOfSection | Number of section (2) | ||||||||||||
| 6 | localDefinitionNumber | Identifier for content: special sections can be defined by different sections.
The following numbers are known to the COSMO-Model system:
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