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Paula, Can you give me a quick background of what you are using with QSCT? It looks like the catalog of times is a little disjoint. How are you organizing the files locally etc. Thanks, Steve >From: Paula Dzuroff <address@hidden> >Organization: The Ohio State University >Keywords: 200202112052.g1BKq3x26864 >Steve, > >The QSCT parameter works great! It's the TMI sea-surface temperature data I'm >after now. > >Paula > > >Unidata Support wrote: > >> Paula, >> >> The QSCT parameter was added to GPMAP and NMAP for GEMPAK 5.6.e >> for quikscat data from NESDIS. I don't know how that format >> compares to your ssmi.com site. The QSCT template >> is used in the $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl file for >> use with the QSCT plotting. >> >> It appears that the ssmi site has quikscat data under the >> qscat/qscat_wind_vectors directory...but I haven't looked >> too far. >> >> Steve Chiswell >> Unidata User Support >> >> >From: Paula Dzuroff <address@hidden> >> >Organization: The Ohio State University >> >Keywords: 200202111903.g1BJ3hx14174 >> >> > Hi Steve, >> > >> >Just wondering if you've had any experience plotting data from Remote >> >Sensing Systems, Inc. (TRMM/TMI sst data)? Still investigating, but I >> >think it's binary... >> > >> >For example: >> >ftp://ftp.ssmi.com/tmi/bmaps_v02/y2000/ >> > >> >Paula Hennon >> > >> >******************* >> >The Ohio State University >> >Atmospheric Sciences Program >> >1036 Derby Hall >> >154 North Oval Mall >> >Columbus, Ohio 43210 >> > >> >address@hidden >> > >> >http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu >> >******************** >> > >> >> **************************************************************************** >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >> (303)497-8644 P.O. Box 3000 >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ >> **************************************************************************** >