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19990317: station location and panels..
- 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
>
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>Ag. Weather Center fax: 606-257-5671
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>University of Kentucky
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>
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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