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>From: James Murakami <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200008082048.e78KmkT24605 >Hi: > >With the eventual demise of DIFAX, I know GEMPAK plots can >duplicate most DIFAX charts. University of Wisconsin produces >some nice examples of such plots. However, does GEMPAK have (or >will have in the future) the ability to plot aircraft observations? >The DIFAX 250 millibar charts, for example, plot aircraft, satellite, >and rawindsonde observations. I know aircraft reports at jetstream >level are transmitted across DDPLUS (just can't remember WMO header). >The satellite obs would be nice to plot too, but I don't know if >that's on the datastreams. > >James > >-------------------------------------- >James Murakami >Staff Meteorologist/Student Affairs >Department of Atmospheric Sciences >University of California, Los Angeles >405 Hilgard Ave. >Los Angeles, CA 90095-1565 > > > e-mail: address@hidden >telephone: 310-825-2418 > Fax: 310-206-5219 >--------------------------------------- > James, You can plot the ACARS observations on a map currently. ACARS data are available from FSL using the PCWS data stream. Also, GEMPAK 5.5 will have a PIREP decoder for bulletins with headers: DDPLUS|IDS (^U[ABDR].... ....|^XRXX84 KAWN|^YIXX84 KAWN) Steve Chiswell