20021001: GEMPAK with case studies

Angie and Ben,

Please send all support questions to address@hidden
so that we may answer them as quickly as possible.

I put together an example of using the case study data sets
with GEMPAK:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/coohl/mhonarc/MailArchives/gempak/msg02970.html

In particular, configuring GEMPAK GUIs to find data files generally
involves setting the environmental varibles GEMDATA, SAT, RAD, and
MODEL. When using retrospective data, these variables should point
to the case study directory structure rather than the real-time data.
By using the same directory structure as the real-time data, the configuration 
files $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl and $GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults
will not have to be modified since their definitions which locate
the data sets are defined in terms of the environmental variables
mentioned above.

The case study web site may have more information.

An example csh start up script for ntl from the example I put together
above is:

#!/bin/csh -f
#
# Instructions:
# Source your $NAWIPS/Gemenviron setup before running this script.
# Run this script from the top of the case19 tree. The GEMDATA
# environmental variable set below will be relative to this location.
#
# Steve Chiswell
# Unidata Program Center
#
# ------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Top of the GEMPAK data tree 
setenv GEMDATA ./gemdata_cometcase_019
#
# Location of Satellite image tree
setenv SAT $GEMDATA/images/sat
#
# Locations of model data files
setenv MODEL $GEMDATA/model
setenv HDS $MODEL
#
# Location of RADAR data tree
setenv RAD $GEMDATA/nexrad

#
# set resource directory for Nsharp 
if ( -d resource ) then
        set xresources="./resource/%N"
        if ( $?XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ) then
           setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ${xresources}:${XUSERFILESEARCHPATH}
        else
           setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH $xresources
        endif
endif


ntl &



Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



>From: Ben Domenico <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200210011618.g91GIV105484

>Hi all,
>
>I may not have properly forwarded the earlier request for help from Angie 
>Lese at Purdue.  I'll send this one to address@hidden as well. 
>Sorry if I botched the earlier one and left out the support copy.
>
>If you can respond to her fairly soon, it would be good since she initially 
>contacted me some time back.
>
>-- Ben
>
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>Date: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 4:11 PM +0000
>From: Angie Lese <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: GARP question
>
>
>
>
>Hi Ben,
>
>This is Angie Lese (Dr. Agee's student) writing again.  I haven't received
>an answer to my question yet about GARP from Steve Chiswell.  I was
>wondering if you had heard anything yet, or if there is anyone else I can
>get in touch with.  Thank you very  much. . .
>
>Angie Lese
>
>
>> From: Ben Domenico
>> To: Angie Lese
>> CC: Steve Chiswell
>> Subject: Re: GARP question
>> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 20:52:18 -0600
>>
>> Hi Angie,
>>
>> I'm forwarding your question to Steve Chiswell (Chiz), our
>> GEMPAK/GARP expert consultant. I personally don't know the answer
>> to your question, but I'm sure Chiz will.
>>
>> Please say hi to Dr. Agee for me.
>>
>> --Ben
>> ******************************************************
>> Ben Domenico Unidata Acting Director
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu P.O. Box 3000
>> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307
>> (303)497-8631 FAX: (303)497-8690
>>
>>
>> --On Wednesday, September 18, 2002 7:16 PM +0000 Angie Lese
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Mr. Domenico:
>>>
>>> Hi, my name is Angie Lese, and I'm a grad student at Purdue
>>> University.
>>> Dr. Agee is my advisor, and said that you might be able to help me
>>> with a
>>> problem I am having with GARP. I'm trying to view some GARP data
>>> that I
>>> have from an April 9th, 2001 case. I've already downloaded the
>>> data
>>> (directory is entitled 09apr01), and I figured out how to startup
>>> garp
>>> (at our local prompt, i just type in "garp" and the screen pops
>>> up).
>>> However, when I startup GARP, there is no way to open my data from
>>> the
>>> screen. Is there something specific I have to type at the prompt
>>> to open
>>> up my data in GARP? For instance, do I type something like "garp
>>> 09apr01"? Also, in which directory would my data have to be
>>> located?
>>> Right now, I can just type garp from my home directory, and it will
>>> load
>>> up (again with no data in it). Do I need to move my file (09apr01)
>>> into
>>> this home directory, or does it need to go somewhere else, like
>>> further
>>> down the directory line? You might need to know more specific
>>> information, so just let me know if that's the case. If I am
>>> unclear
>>> about anything, please let me know. I would appreciate any
>>> assistance
>>> you might be willing to give. Thanks for your time.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Angie Lese
>>>
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