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19990701: next GEMPAK question

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  • Subject: 19990701: next GEMPAK question
  • Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:38:31 -0600
John,

It depends on the type on input needed by your 3D package
as to what you would output.

You can use gdlist to output data to an ascii file with
OUTPUT=f/filename. You could also write a program to read the gempak data
file using routines provided in the gempak library and write it into
whatever format your needed. Also, there are some programs called gemvis
(not part of gempak) that can convert the gempak data into Vis-5D format.
Otherwise, if you have the raw grid bata, you can convert it into NetCDF
format and many packages like IDL, NCARGraphics, matlab etc can read
NetCDF files.

In general, you can always send questions to address@hidden.
If I'm on vacation or out of the office, someone else may get to your
question quicker than myself. Also, there is the gembud mail list where
you might be able to get information on how other Unidata sites are
solving the problem.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support
address@hidden



On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, John Knox wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Thanks for all your help with GEMPAK.
> Now, a new question: let's say we want to do some 3D 
> visualization of the data.  If we want to put a subset of 
> the data into a file for use with another software package, 
> how is that done [if it's doable]?  
> 
> Also: should I be bugging you with these questions?  I feel 
> like our needs are at a pretty basic level, but I've not 
> been successful at answering them via the Web so far.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John
> 
> 
>