Familiarize yourself with the Intermediate Files

As with the GRIB data files, it is good to know/understand what is written out to the intermediate files.

rd_intermediate.exe

This utility is available inside the WPS/util/ directory.
Given the name of a singe intermediate format file on the command line, the rd_intermediate.exe program prints information about the fields contained in the file, e.g.:

./util/rd_intermediate.exe FILE:2005-08-28_00