Introduction

Wgrib2 has multiple levels of verbosity. The lowest level (0) is the default and set by -v0. The next level is 1 and is set by -v. Really verbose is set by -v2. Debugging is set by level 99. Note that the verbosity can be changed multiple times on the command line.

Usage

-v0
-v
-v2

Example

-$ wgrib2 fcst.grb
1:4:d=2007032600:HGT:1000 mb:anl:
2:422561:d=2007032600:HGT:1000 mb:3 hour fcst:
-$ wgrib2 fcst.grb -v
1:4:d=2007032600:HGT Geopotential Height [gpm]:1000 mb:anl:
2:422561:d=2007032600:HGT Geopotential Height [gpm]:1000 mb:3 hour fcst:
-$ wgrib2 fcst.grb -v2
1:4:00Z26mar2007:HGT Geopotential Height [gpm]:lvl1=100000*10**0 lvl2=missing lvl1=(100,100000) lvl2=(255,missing):1000 mb:anl:
2:422561:00Z26mar2007:HGT Geopotential Height [gpm]:lvl1=100000*10**0 lvl2=missing lvl1=(100,100000) lvl2=(255,missing):1000 mb:3 hour fcst: