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RE: QuikSCAT winds in NMAP2?

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  • Subject: RE: QuikSCAT winds in NMAP2?
  • Date: 24 Mar 2005 09:23:45 -0700
Robert,

Can you send me your QSCT parameter setting line you tried
with GPMAP?

There is no color bar for QBUF data type that I have written, so
that sounds very strange. The QSCT and AMB progds from NCEP have that,
but not the QBUF for the BUFR data.

Steve

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 06:54, Robert Mullenax wrote:
>  Steve,
> 
> I logged into the Unidata ftp server using the McIDAS ftp login and placed
> one of my BUFR files in the incoming directory.
> 
> Thanks for looking at this.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Chiswell
> To: Robert Mullenax
> Cc: GEMPAK support
> Sent: 3/23/2005 4:58 PM
> Subject: RE: QuikSCAT winds in NMAP2?
> 
> Robert,
> 
> Are you using the mscset.tbl entries that I provide?
> If you merge in your own past revisions and didn't get the QBUF entries,
> that would be a problem.
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 15:27, Robert Mullenax wrote:
> > Yes.  That's what I am using.  To make sure I wasn't doing something
> strange
> > I just used your binary.  NMAP2 did plot a color bar at the top, but
> no
> > data.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Robert
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Chiswell
> > To: Robert Mullenax
> > Cc: 'address@hidden'; GEMPAK support
> > Sent: 3/23/2005 4:23 PM
> > Subject: Re: QuikSCAT winds in NMAP2?
> > 
> > Robert,
> > 
> > I can:
> >
> http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/QuikSCAT/ind
> > ex.html
> > 
> > For the BUFR products from HRS, Make sure you are using the QBUF
> > datatype.tbl config and the MISC/QBUF menu option.
> > 
> > Steve CHiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:31, Robert Mullenax wrote:
> > > Can anyone successfully view QuikSCAT winds in NMAP2 (5.7.4)?  I
> > turned on
> > > the saving of the QS BUFR files to disk in my LDM (fed from our PDI
> > system)
> > > and the files are being written to disk but both NMAP2 and gpmap
> load
> > the
> > > files without complaining but do not display any data.  Any ideas?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Robert Mullenax