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19990317: station location and panels..

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  • Subject: 19990317: station location and panels..
  • Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:36:23 -0700
>From: Maureen Ballard <address@hidden>
>Organization: UK Ag Weather Center
>Keywords: 199903171736.KAA18803

>Steve,
>
>A couple quick things.
>
>I just started plotting SME (Somerset, KY) and realized that the
>lat/long values are off. I looked up there location on NCDC and believe
>the correct information should be:
>
>SME    99999    SOMERSET (AWOS)    KY    US    3705    -8462    282
>
>Currently, you station lookup and all the tables here have:
>
>SME    99999     SOMERSET(AWOS)    KY    US    3800    -8460    283
>
>I'll be making the changes here but thought you should know.
>
>Also, am I correct in saying that the ps driver cannot make a GEMPAK
>image with panels? I moved some scripts to a computer which can't use
>gfw and the only things that wouldn't work were the panels so that is
>the assumption I made. If you could, could you let me know? Thanks!
>
>Maureen
>
>--
>========================================================================
>
>Maureen Moore Ballard                   address@hidden
>Staff Meteorologist                           ph:  606-257-3000ext244
>Ag. Weather Center                         fax: 606-257-5671
>243 Ag. Engineering Bldg
>Dept. of Biosystems and Ag. Engr.
>University of Kentucky
>Lexington, KY 40546-0276
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>
>You don't stop laughing because you grow old;
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>
>
>

Maureen,

The station table values for SME in the GEMPAK tables came from the air weather
service tables, and are similarly confused in the NWS tables as seen at:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/siteloc.shtml

I checked with the FAA tables and find SME airport which matches the lat/lon
you mention above (as well as my standard old atlas). I'll see if I can get
confirmation on the location of the AWOS station relative to the airport
location and update the tables.

Regarding the drivers; only xw and gf can display imagery (radar/satellite)
data. the NC and PS drivers are not capable of displaying imagery since
the display of the data requires the X server. You can use the panel
option to create postscript displays of any other data however-

 MAP      = 6
 GAREA    = uslcc
 PROJ     = lcc
 SATFIL   = $SAT/MDR/5km/MDR/MDR_980806_1759
 RADFIL   = 
 LATLON   = 0
 PANEL    = ll
 TITLE    = 5/-1
 TEXT     = 1/22/1
 CLEAR    = y
 DEVICE   = ps|testme.ps
 LUTFIL   = default
 STNPLT   = 
 GEMPAK-GPMAP>r

followed by:

 MAP      = 6
 GAREA    = co
 PROJ     = str/90;-105;0
 SATFIL   = $SAT/MDR/5km/MDR/MDR_980806_1759
 RADFIL   = 
 LATLON   = 0
 PANEL    = ur
 TITLE    = 5/-1
 TEXT     = 1/22/1
 CLEAR    = n
 DEVICE   = ps|testme.ps
 LUTFIL   = default
 STNPLT   = 
 GEMPAK-GPMAP>r


then-

% gpend

The resultant image has a map of the us in the lower left, and a close
up of Colorado in the upper right.

Steve Chiswell