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20010606: 20010606: gempak to netcdf

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  • Subject: 20010606: 20010606: gempak to netcdf
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 13:36:17 -0600
Darien,

The NCEP decoder dcairm stores the AIRMET data as ASCII files.

The NCEP decoder dcacft decodes AIREP, PIREP, RECCO and AMDAR reports
to GEMPAK ship format surface files.

My dcacars decoder for the NetCDF ACARS feed from FSL decodes the 
data into GEMPAK ship format surface files.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Darien Davis <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200106061917.f56JHrp04418

>Thanks for the info Steve...I'm assuming this means that the aireps/pireps
>is not going into a gridded data set (although I guess that is possible).
>
>Darien
>
>Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> >From: Darien Davis <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200106061701.f56H1kp29863
>>
>> >I thought at one point that I heard Unidata had software to integrate
>> >netcdf files into Gempak -- instead of data being decoded and stored
>> >into gempak format, it was stored in netcdf files. Is this true? We are
>> >trying to port the ncep/gempak decoders into awips for the
>> >National Weather Service and are interested
>> >if you have tried a similar exercise. In particular, we are looking at
>> >the
>> >aireps/pireps decoder and the synoptic decoder.
>> >
>> >Thanks for any info!
>> >Darien Davis
>> >Forecast Systems Lab
>> >
>>
>> Darien,
>>
>> I created GEMPAK library routines to read NetCDF grid files. But, the
>> NetCDF files are big and bulky- and hard to add parameters to when you
>> compute new grids, times, or other dimensions.
>>
>> I haven't done any other development for non-GEMPAK formats.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
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