20031023: Radar

>From:  Russ Dengel <address@hidden>
>Organization:  SSEC
>Keywords:  200310231310.h9NDACOb025941

Russ and Dee,

>     Dee would like to know if the NEXRAD radar products are refered to 
>as Level 2 data sets. I'm sort of thinking that they are level 1 but I'm 
>not sure.

The products that can currently be viewed in McIDAS are referred to as
NEXRAD Level III products.  The full volume scan data is referred to as
NEXRAD Level II data.  Note the differentiation between Level _and_
the distinction made between products and data.

>     Thanks for the example GeoTIFF images/grids. We'll test them out today.

No worries.

>Dee Wade wrote:
>
>> Is our radar data level 2 ????
>> Dee

Tom
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