ON388 - TABLE 6
DATA REPRESENTATION TYPE
(GDS Octet 6)
Revised 09/14/2006
Red text depicts changes made since 09/15/2005

VALUE | MEANING
--- | ---
0 | Latitude/Longitude Grid - Equidistant Cylindrical or Plate Carree projection
1 | Mercator Projection Grid
2 | Gnomonic Projection Grid
3 | Lambert Conformal, secant or tangent, conical or bipolar (normal or oblique) projection
4 | Gaussian Latitude/Longitude
5 | Polar Stereographic projection Grid
6 | Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) projection
7 | Simple polyconic projection
8 | Albers equal-area, secant or tangent, conic or bi-polar, projection
9 | Miller's cylindrical projection
10 | Rotated latitude/longitude grid
11-12 | Reserved
13 | Oblique Lambert conformal, secant or tangent, conical or bipolar, projection
14 | Rotated Gaussian latitude/longitude grid
15-19 | Reserved
20 | Stretched latitude/longitude grid
21-23 | Reserved
24 | Stretched Gaussian latitude/longitude grid
25-29 | Reserved
30 | Stretched and rotated latitude/longitude grids
31-33 | Reserved
34 | Stretched and rotated Gaussian latitude/longitude grids
35-49 | Reserved
50 | Spherical Harmonic Coefficients
51-59 | Reserved
60 | Rotated spherical harmonic coefficients
61-69 | Reserved
70 | Stretched spherical harmonics
71-79 | Reserved
80 | Stretched and rotated spherical harmonic coefficients
81-89 | Reserved
90 | Space view perspective or orthographic
91-191 | (reserved - see Manual on Codes)
192-254 | Reserved for local use
NCEP usage follows
192-200 | Undefined
201 | Arakawa semi-staggered E-grid on rotated latitude/longitude grid-point array
202 | Arakawa filled E-grid on rotated latitude/longitude grid-point array
203 | Curivilinear Orthogonal Grid
204-253 | Undefined
254 | Grid point locations specified by auxilliary file or GRIB message

Office Note 388 - GRIB