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>From: Luis Farfan <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200010051916.e95JGn114054 > >I am interested in learning ways to include special symbols in the >generation of displays with gempak. The program "sfmap" is used to plot >surface observations and need to include in this plot the position of a >hurricane. I know that I create a file with the position of the hurricane >and include is as part of the "STNPLT" and indicate the marker type >desired. This type seems to be limited to only 21 options and none of them >has any "hurricane symbol". Luis, I added marker types 22 and 23 for tropical storm and hurricane respectively. > >After consulting the GEMPAK, N-AWIPS user's guide, I found that Appendix C >describes symbols, lines and markers. A hurricane appears as part of the >"SPECIAL SYMBOL" section (#6 or #7), but I am not able to find how to >include it as part of my choice in STNPLT. > >Could you please help me to find a way to include this symbol via this >program variable(STNPLT)? >If this is not possible, would you like to provide other options? > >Also, is any of the gempak programs able to allow drawing a line between 2 >given positions (or stations)? Luis, There was a contributed gpline program: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/coohl/mhonarc/MailArchives/gembud-list/msg00754.html The source code is in the ftp directory: ~gbuddy/nawips-5.2.1/contrib/gptext.tar.Z.suny I have not tested this program with version 5.4 but could look into it if the readme file sounds like what you are interested in. Steve CHiswell Unidata User Support > >Thank you very much, >Luis M Farfan. >