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20020503: GARP doesn't display Color Bar correctly with GINI radar composites

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  • Subject: 20020503: GARP doesn't display Color Bar correctly with GINI radar composites
  • Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 15:49:14 -0600
>From: "Robert Mullenax" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200205031918.g43JIwa24496

>I am creating GINI radar composites using nex2gini.  When I
>display them using gpmap the resulting color bar is correct
>showing units of dBz from -14 to 75.  However, I have been through
>Garp_config, $NAWIPS/comet/garp/tables..etc and cannot seem
>to make GARP display in the correct units.  It always comes
>up labeled as GINI with units goint to 43.  What am I missing here?
>
>Sorry for the barrage of questions..trying to catch up here.
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Mullenax
>

No, Garp does not use the GEMLIB routines to display the color bar,
it uses its own routine and just displays the values of the 
pixels for any GINI. That will just have to be updated.

Steve Chiswell