20020528: reading NIDS files

Michal,

If you just want to uncompress the NIDS product and write out the
product without the zlib compression, several examples of small
converter programs are available:

Dan Vietor's ucnids.c program:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm-users-list/4889

Pete Pokrandt's Perl script:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm-users-list/4783

If you are looking for raster values generated from the radials
contained within the products, then that is a different question.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support





On Tue, 28 May 2002, Michal Kraszewski wrote:

> I would like to use GEMPAK to read in and write out the raw data in uncoded 
> format for the Level III NIDS radar products.  I understand that GEMPAK 
> provides the possibility for scripting, and I would like to include this 
> option with writing out raw data to a file.
>
> I have been sucessful in reading the raw NIDS products in GEMPAK.
>
> Has anyone been able to write out data from GEMPAK for these products 
> directly to a file?
>
> If you have been successful with these Level III products, I would appreciate 
> any tips or guidance on how it worked out for you.
>
> Thanks you very much.
>
> Michal Kraszewski