20010104: imar2gm.f and gpfront in GEMPAK-5.6.A

David,

I'm still looking into your NWX problems. I have your changes to use the
earth radius from the AREA file. I will work with Tom Yoksas to determine
the impact of the AREA file parameters, and have sent your message on
to NCEP for the developers there to consider.

I made a fix to gpfront from 5.6 to 5.6A that fixed a bug in the
H/L symbol plotting since the spcl marker numbers were changed
from 5.4 to 5.6 (so you would have seen circles plotted instead of
the H and L symbols in 5.6. Harry mentioned that you were having
a problem with display to remote systems in particular with 5.6,
so I'm still investigating that.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: David Ovens <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200101041134.f04BY1o02983

>To: address@hidden
>Cc: address@hidden
>
>Hello,
>
>I have not heard from anyone at Unidata regarding my email of Dec 28,
>2000, Subject: I found and fixed a bug in GEMPAK imar2gm.f.  I am
>curious if it is being investigated -- I am pretty happy with how my
>McIdas area files of topography line up with the GEMPAK map data base at
>30-second terrain resolution but there are slight discrepancies.  They
>may still be due to an error in my calculations, but they do not seem
>to follow any pattern, so I think it is probably just an artifact of
>30-second smoothing.
>
>Also, I pointed out to Harry Edmon that gpfront in version 5.6.A
>doesn't work at all on our Suns or Decs.  Version 5.6 works just fine.
>Are you aware of this?
>
>Thanks for any feedback.
>
>
>David
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>
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