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Re: decoding software.

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  • Subject: Re: decoding software.
  • Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:02:15 -0700 (MST)
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Julien Chastang wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> My name is Julien Chastang and I work at RAP on the 4dwx project.
> 
> For our project, we have a noaaport data feed. We want to decode metar,
> upper air soundings, upper air profiler, and synoptics coming over
> noaaport. 

Julien,

The Unidata decoders are designed to support the Unidata  community that
receive NOAAport data via the IDD.  The decoders read the raw data from
the the LDM program or STDIN and produce netCDF output files. The decoders
are written in perl and they are flexible in the number of output vars
desired in the netCDF file. If another output file format is needed the
decoders will have to be modified by you. There are decoders for metars,
upper air soundings and synoptics products but not upper air profiler.

Here's a url for more info:

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/decoders/

 Robb...


> 
> We have been using Peter Neilley's weather program to decode the datasets,
> but we are becoming frustrated by its lack of support.
> 
> We are looking into other software packages to decode the data listed
> above. We need reliable, well supported decoding software. My supervisor,
> Scott Swerdlin, has suggested unidata decoders, as well as GTS decoders
> provided by MMM.
> 
> Do you have any suggestions or opinions about finding a reliable data
> decoder? Are there other decoders out there?
> 
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> --
> Julien
> 
> 
> 
> 

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