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Geff, I have posted a patch for the $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im/imar2gm.f routine on the GEMPAK portal site. The patch is also in the old gbuddy ftp directory area under the nawips-5.6/patches directory as imar2gm.f_5.6.e.1. This patch fixes the display of the MDR AREA files from the unidata/Wisconsin (aka MCIDAS) data feed. To update your distribution, you can download the patched routine to your $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im directory. The rebuild with: cd $GEMPAK/source/gemlib/im make clean make all make clean cd $GEMPAK/source/programs make clean make all make install make clean cd $NAWIPS/nprogs make clean make all make install make clean cd $GARPHOME make all make install make clean The MDR images re relatively coarse, so the RCM products or the GDRADR compilations will provide a better picture- however, the display of the MDR products will now be fixed in the distribution of 5.6.f. Thanks again for pointing out the problem, Steve Chiswell Unidata User SUpport >From: Geff Underwood <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200109212051.f8LKp6100925 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Steve, > >Another problem with gpmap radar has appeared: the navigation seems to >be off. If I use the following script, I get an image that shows a big >radar echo in Iowa, but none in Texas; if I replace 'AREA020' with >'AREA014', the result looks reasonable. > >#!/bin/csh > >source /nawips/Gemenviron >rm -f radar.err *.nts radar.gif >& /dev/null >setenv RADAR `ls -t /data/mcidas/AREA020? | head -1` >setenv DISPLAY :2.0 >setenv DEVICE 'gf|radar.gif|800;600|c' >setenv AREA '24;-122;44;-62' > >gpmap_gf << EOF >> radar.err >\$mapfil=hipowo.cia >proj=rad >area=${AREA} >garea=${AREA} >radfil=${RADAR} >lutfil=default >device=${DEVICE} >clear=yes >title=0 >run > >EOF > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: PGP 6.5.8 > >iQA/AwUBO6un/cXnbEgeKlfEEQLB8QCfcSFVFkjWYCvpOcbjTe7aQxlSpeUAn1Ca >8Qt3sHK7J4KN5BLp8jcGtP37 >=6JXC >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >