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>From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 200002041530.IAA11267 >On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, Unidata Support wrote: > >> However, I do see that you downloaded the pl15 linux binary distribution >> on Jan 26. You should update the dcgrib decoder to pl15 (either binary distr > ibution >> or local build) since it will allow you to use the UK Met grids as >> well. > >That was the problem. I had the old decoders still in use instead of the >the ones in pl15. Many things were fixed with that. I cannot find the >nsat_links, nowrad_links, and nids_links scripts in the new distribution >of gempak. Are these available somewhere else? > >Also, now that our gridded data filenames and locations match (closely) >the distributed Garp_defaults I can now get at the model data. For some >reason the nids are still not showing up in the "Image Products" dialog. >Is this because the nids_links script has not been run yet? The >environment and directory structure are correct. > >Thanks. > >Mark Tucker >Information Technology >Lyndon State College >address@hidden > > Mark, In the Garp_defaults in the distribution, I have RADDIR defined as $GEMDATA/nexrad. Now that Tom has an ADDE server that can read the nids data from the same directory structure, I have just been filing the data into the $GEMDATA/nexrad tree rather than using the nids and nowrad link scripts, eg: WSI ^NEX/(.*)/(.*)/([1-2][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-1][0-9])([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]) FILE data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\1/\2/\1-\2_\3\4\5\6_\7\8 WSI ^(NOW)/USRAD/([1-2][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-1][0-9])([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]) FILE data/gempak/nexrad/USRAD/8km/\1/\1_\2\3\4\5_\6\7 WSI ^(NOW)/MASTER/([1-2][0-9])([0-9][0-9])([0-1][0-9])([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]) FILE data/gempak/nexrad/USRAD/2km/\1/\1_\2\3\4\5_\6\7 I use the prune_nexrad.csh script to scour the nids and nowrad files rather than maintaining the links, but I posted the all scripts in the ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/scripts directory.. Steve Chiswell