Failure setting key changeDecimalPrecision - ecCodes GRIB FAQ

Created by Fayaz Abdul, last modified on Aug 12, 2019

Problem

Failure setting key changeDecimalPrecision

Solution

If you issue the command "grib_set -s changeDecimalPrecision=1 spectral.grib output", you can get an error

ECCODES ERROR   :  COMPLEX_PACKING : Cannot compute binary_scale_factor

This is because that key does not work for spectral_complex! So first check the packingType key.

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