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Patrick, The composites are best viewed either with NMAP2 as the gui, or gdplot2 from the command line. The $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl file has aliases for the national mosaic as NEXR and the regional as NEXL and NEXF (for a floater and or a local you would create for your own region). The $GEMTBL/nmap/mod_res.tbl provides for two products: Radar_Reflectivity and Radar_Reflectivity_qc You may want to add "nexf" to the "nexr;nexl" list as well. The difference between the two products above is that Radar_Reflectivity uses a gdplot2 TYPE=Z and Radar_Reflectivity_qc uses a gdplot2 TYPE=F. The former just fills in the grid boxes. The later contours the data for a slightly smoother appearance. If you are looking for an example of plotting the data in gdplot2, use the restore files mentioned in the mod_res.tbl entry as a guide and consult the GDRADR page for examples of how to use the grids in precipitation type plots, etc. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/examples/gdradr/ look at the section "Using radar data in grid calculations"/ Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200111161746.fAGHk7N10993 >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C16E94.6E2358F0 >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >Hello - > >I have begun receiving, decoding and filing the 6km mosaic files in .gem = >format via the NMC3 feed on the IDD. I was wondering if there were = >instructions on viewing these files in GARP, i.e. Garp_Defaults entries, = >etc. (if this is even possible). If it is necessary to view them = >explicitly with GEMPAK, which program is best suited for this? Thanks = >for the assistance. > >Patrick > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Patrick O'Reilly Support Scientist >The STORM Project address@hidden >208 Latham Hall ph: 319-273-3789 >University of Northern Iowa >Cedar Falls, IA 50614 =20 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 > > >------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C16E94.6E2358F0 >Content-Type: text/html; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> ><HTML><HEAD> ><META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = >charset=3Diso-8859-1"> ><META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=3DGENERATOR> ><STYLE></STYLE> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>Hello -</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>I have begun receiving, = >decoding and=20 >filing the 6km mosaic files in .gem format via the NMC3 feed on the = >IDD. I=20 >was wondering if there were instructions on viewing these files in GARP, = >i.e.=20 >Garp_Defaults entries, etc. (if this is even = >possible). If it=20 >is necessary to view them explicitly with GEMPAK, which program is best = >suited=20 >for this? Thanks for the assistance.</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif" size=3D2>Patrick</FONT></DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV><FONT face=3D"MS Sans Serif"=20 >size=3D2>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>Patrick=20 >O'Reilly  = >; = > =20 >Support Scientist<BR>The STORM=20 >Project = > <A=20 >href=3D"mailto:address@hidden";>address@hidden</A><BR>20= >8 Latham=20 >Hall &nb= >sp; &nbs= >p; =20 >ph: 319-273-3789<BR>University of Northern Iowa<BR>Cedar Falls, IA=20 >50614 &n= >bsp;=20 ><BR>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 ><BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > >------=_NextPart_000_0019_01C16E94.6E2358F0-- >