20030925: lightning data

Fred,

The programs you have and need to display the lightning data are:
o DCNLDN which you invoke through pqact.conf to decode the
  data to a GEMPAK surface file

o Any program which can display a GEMPAK surface file (eg SFMAP, NMAP2, GARP 
etc)
  will display the lightning data.

The ltgmap program you refer to is an old (GEMPAK 5.2 and GEMPAK 5.4) version
of SFMAP that had larger arrays defined (since there are lots more lightning
strokes an jhour than surface stations). That is no longer necessary since
SFMAP in 5.6 has large enough arrays.

Sorry to see you leave. Good luck.

Steve Chiswell

>From: "Kopp, Fred" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200309251703.h8PH3ak1023307

>I tried to use the support request form, but am not sure that it worked.
>
>We have just started to get lightning data. We do not have ltgmap as part of
>our gempak software. I tried to download but my login/password no longer
>work. We have version 5.6d. 
>
>The other issue is that I am being terminated at the end of September, so
>someone else here will need to take over the unidata software/weather data.
>I have suggested that someone needs to attend the gempak training. They
>should probably deal with installation of this software.
>
>The question is: do we get the lightning software (gempak) from unidata or
>is there some other source?
>
>Fred Kopp
>
>PS: I will submit a removal request from the various lists that I am on
>quite soon.
>