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RE: 20040309: range rings

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Bruce,

As in my message, the paremeters LOCI, SHAPE and INFO
are fore the GPANOT program:

> >then use use GPANOT 
> > to draw navigated rings, eg with your PROJ=rad and RADFIL specifying 
> > your radar file:
> >
> >  SHAPE    = regpoly
> >  INFO     = 1/1.0/360/360
> >  LOCI     = #39.78;-104.53

Steve Chiswell



On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 13:25, Haynie, Bruce wrote:
> Oops!  Thanks for pointing that out.  Made the correction, but still get
> the same result.
> 
> Bruce 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Weber [mailto:address@hidden] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 20:18
> To: Haynie, Bruce
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: 20040309: range rings
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Not sure if this is an "exact" dup of your script, but if so:
> 
> LOCI        = #33.65;-10180
> 
> seems to be missing a decimal point...:)
> 
> Jeff
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> 
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Haynie, Bruce wrote:
> 
> > Guess I'm missing something here.  Part of my script follows:
> >
> > gpmap << EOF
> >  MAP        = 1//1 + 2//4 + 26/// + 5///
> >  GAREA      = 32.0;-104.2;35.8;-98.7
> >  PROJ       = RAD
> >  SATFIL     =
> >  RADFIL     = $RADDIR/$FILE
> >   SHAPE     = regpoly
> >   INFO      = 1/1.0/360/360
> >   LOCI      = #33.65;-10180
> >  LATLON     = 0
> >  PANEL      = 0
> >  TITLE      = 1/-3
> >  TEXT       = .8/2/1/hw
> >  CLEAR      = y
> >  DEVICE     = gif|lbb_rr_${IMGT}.gif|800;600
> >  LUTFIL = DEFAULT
> >  IMBAR      = 1
> >  STNPLT = 17/.7|1|$STATIONS
> >  VGFILE     =
> >  AWPSFL     =
> >  LINE       = 3
> > \$MAPFIL = hicnus.nws + hipowo.gsf + louhus.nws + loisus.nws r
> >
> > e
> > EOF
> >
> > gpend
> >
> > Tried running the above script, but no range rings were added.
> >
> > Bruce
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Chiswell [mailto:address@hidden]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 19:14
> > To: Haynie, Bruce
> > Cc: address@hidden; GEMPAK support
> > Subject: 20040309: range rings
> >
> > Bruce,
> >
> > One possibility is to plot your radar with GPMAP, 

> >
> > The LOCI point would be the location of the radar. The radius of "1" 
> > in the INFO line will draw a ring at 1.0 degrees radius from the LOCI 
> > point (KFTG's lat/lon in this example).
> >
> > To use repeatedly in your script, you could create a VGF file with the
> 
> > rings drawn at the desired radii, and use that in the GPMAP parameter 
> > VGFIL.
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 11:27, Haynie, Bruce wrote:
> > > Howdy!
> > >
> > > I'd like to display range rings on my GEMPAK-generated radar images.
> > > A quick search through the online literature yielded unfavorable 
> > > results.  Is there a handy method that will allow me to display 
> > > range rings using csh scripts??
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > Bruce
> > > ------------------
> > > Bruce Haynie                    eml: address@hidden
> > > Research Associate              phn: 806-885-4644 x224
> > > West TX MesoNet         fax: 806-885-4468
> > > http://www.mesonet.ttu.edu
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>