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20020619: Gempak: dctrop question

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  • Subject: 20020619: Gempak: dctrop question
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 07:06:26 -0600
Paul,

My dctrop program does not use the HC_ routines. It was developed 
way before NCEP develped their decoder routines.

The NCEP dchrcn decoder does decode central pressure, radii of winds etc.
These are the bulletins that will be plotted in NMAP from the
Misc/hrcn option. The decoded files are text, similar to the
dcwarn and dcwtch ncep decoders.

Steve Chiswell

>From: Paul Ruscher <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200206200233.g5K2XUa07747

>Hi, I noticed that in the standard installation for gempak 5.6, the
>tropic.pack file does not include minimum central pressure, even though it
>is decoded by the HC_ bridge routines which appear to be the ones that
>decode the bulletins used by dctrop.  Can you please tell me where changes
>would have to be made to include min central pressure (other than just
>tropic.pack, and if that is all, which variable name is the correct one)?
>Thanks...Paul Ruscher
>