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20041213: quikscat data

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  • Subject: 20041213: quikscat data
  • Date: 13 Dec 2004 11:23:37 -0700
Bill,

The GEMPAK web site is a good place to start:

http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/index.html

The "Download Software" line will take to to the download portal
where you can obtain the latest GEMPAK release.

For installation instructions, see the GEMPAK5.7 Installation guide
link.

There are basiacally 2 possibilities"
1) You can use on of the binary distributions if you are running
Linux, Freebsd, or Solaris.

2) you can build the distribution from source if you are using
one of the other supported platfoems such as IRIX, AIX, OSF/1, HPUX.


After installing GEMPAK5.7.4, you would need to obtain the BUFR
format QuikSCAT products from NOAAPORT, which is what Stan
was referring to. These data are available from our LDM/IDD data feed
(under the HRS feedtype). If you need to set up an LDM node,
please let address@hidden know.

The LDM pattern action to store the QuikSCAT BUFR data is shown at:
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/QuikSCAT/


As always, feel free to send support questions to
address@hidden

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support
address@hidden




On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:57, Bill Emery wrote:
> Steve,
>       Stan Wilson has asked me to check if CU students could access 
> quikscat data via NOAAport using GEMPAK.  Now I haven't used GEMPAK 
> in many years so I would need to get an update.  Could you help me 
> evaluate this capability so I could get back to Stan and Eric 
> Lindstom.  I can get quikscat data through JPL but that isn't what 
> they want to test.
> 
> thanks,  Bill