Re: 20000626: joining unidata, COMET case studies

Charles, 

I understand you already have a site license for GEMPAK/Garp
so all you need now are some case studies.

Please visit the following URL to obtain any case study you desire.

http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cometCases/

and select Access COMET Case Studies....and proceed from there.

PLease let me know if I can be of further assistance.

There is NO cost associated with this data.

-Jeff
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Jeff Weber
Unidata/NWS-COMET Case Study Library
University Corp for Atmospheric Research

address@hidden
PH:303-497-8676   
URL--http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Unidata Support wrote:

> >From: Charles Jones <address@hidden>
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200006270129.e5R1TLT08835
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I would like to join Unidata. In particular, I would like to download
> >garp software to view COMET case studies.
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >Charles.
> >
> >--
> >*====================================================*
> >Dr. Charles Jones
> >Assistant Researcher
> >Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS)
> >University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3060
> >
> >phone: (805) 893-5824
> >fax:   (805) 893-2578
> >email: address@hidden
> >URL:   http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/~cjones
> >|=====================================================*
> >
> >
> 
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Believe it or not, we already have a signed license on file for your departmet
> completed in January 1996 requested by James Frew/Raymond C. Smith.
> 
> Garp is simply a Gui for the GEMPAK package, and is inclusive with the GEMPAK
> distribution.
> 
> 
> The information you need to download gempak is:
> host: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
> login: gbuddy
> passwd: XXXXXX
> 
> Please record the above information for your records.
> 
> Here are the general source download and building instructions. If
> you are running Solaris x86 or Linux, you can download binary distributions
> for these platforms. In particular, GEMPAK requires Motif which is not
> part of Linux (must be purchased separately), so you would likely
> need to download the binary distribution.
> 
> The source distribution for building is found under
> ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl16.tar.gz
> 
> The current tar file is patched through patch level 16.
> 
> To build Gempak from source, download and unpack the distribution into
> a clean directory. Edit the csh file Gemenviron in the top directory
> and define the NAWIPS environmental variable to be the directory you
> unpacked into. Source the Gemenviron variables into your csh
> environment to define $NAWIPS and all the tree locations relative to
> NAWIPS. Then, if your system is standard configuration for Solaris,
> Solaris for Intel (X86) IRIX, OSF/1, AIX, Linux, HPUX- you should be able 
> to just type "make all", followed by "make install" when the compilation 
> finishes. 
> If you have libraries in non-standard places, then the 
> $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.xxxxx
> file for your OS would have to be modified. You should not modify the 
> optimization levels since some compilers don't work well with aggressive
> optimization.
> 
> Documentation for GEMAPK can be found as postscript files under
> the $NAWIPS/doc/User_Guide directory, as well as online at:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/
> 
> All users that use Gempak should source Gemenviron into their csh
> environment to define the Gempak variables and add the executable
> directory into their path. Once the distribution is installed,
> you can edit the data directory locations defined in Gemenviron-
> but thats not a priority for building.
> 
> Plese refer all questions about the distribution and any problems
> you may have to address@hidden. You may also wish to
> subscribe yourself to the gembud email list at:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailinglist/mailing-list-form.html
> 
> Announcements about the GEMPAK distribution, including new distributions,
> patches, and feature enhancements are made through that list. Also,
> if you have information or need to find other users who may have
> experience with a specific data set, then you are encouraged to
> use the email list which is composed of fellow GEMPAK users in our community.
> 
> Once you have GEMPAK installed, you can use the "dc" realtime data decoders
> with the LDM package to decode the data into GEMPAK format as it arrives
> at your site. Refer to the LDM web pages for the installation of LDM and
> getting connected to the IDD. Examples of LDM pqact.cont pattern/action 
> entries for 
> the various types of data for the GEMPAK decoders are found in the tutorial
> as well as in the Examples section of the GEMPAK www pages.
> 
> For case studies, you generally will set environmental variables for
> SAT, GEMDATA, HDS, and NTRANS_META to point to the particular
> case directories rather than realtime data directories. By using the 
> environmental
> variables, multiple sets of case studies can be accessed simply by
> reconfiguring your csh environment. Once the Environmental variables are
> set, launchinh Garp from the ntl launcher bar will obtain all the directory 
> locations
> inherited by the variables.
> 
> 
> Steve Chiswell
>