20000713: png2area products (CIMMS) and GARP

>From: weather <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200007130050.e6D0okT28032

>I am decoding the CIMMS products into the data/gempak/nport/SOUNDER
>directory as suggested by the sample ldm-mcidas-pqact file.  I can't
>figure out how to add these directories so I can browse the data using
>GARP.  
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Mullenax
>


Robert,

The data directory will have to be under your $SAT directory...even if its just
a symbolic link to the directory you are storing the data in. Then,
you will have to add the SOUNDER directory to the list of sat keys in
$GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults, eg:

#  Provide extra information for the satellite data
#
#  List each individual satellite directory
#  Multiple entries are space separated
.....
GSOUND : "$(SAT)/SOUNDER"

sat             : "$(G7) $(G8) $(G9) $(G10) $(GINI) $(COMPOSITE) $(GMS) $(MDR) 
$(FLOAT1) $(FLOAT2) $(SPOLE) $(GSOUND)"


There are no $GEMTBL/sat/imgtyp.tbl entries for these products in the 5.4 
distribution. They are:

! SOUNDER Products
! NOAAPORT GINI images
SOUNDER              LI            0    255     70  2**15      1 GRAY
SOUNDER              PW            0    255     70  2**16      1 GRAY
SOUNDER              SFC_SKIN      0    255     70  2**17      1 GRAY
SOUNDER              CTP           0    255     70  2**26      1 GRAY
!
! CIMMS products
SOUNDER              CTP           0    255     75  2**26      1 GRAY
SOUNDER              PW            0    255     75  2**27      1 snd_pwin.tbl
SOUNDER              LI            0    255     75  2**28      1 snd_li.tbl
SOUNDER              CAPE          0    255     75  2**29      1 GRAY
SOUNDER              OZONE         0    255     75  2**30      1 GRAY
SOUNDER              SST           0    255     70  2**30      1 ssmi_mpc.tbl


The band numbers are too big for the 6 columns allotted in the table, so
I entered them such as 2**30 instead of the huge number-
and made a modification to the $GEMPAKHOME/source/gemlib/im/imrtbl.f file
as outlined in:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/gempak/3646  see (2) in this message.

Steve Chiswell