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20050523: gpnids and output option

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  • Subject: 20050523: gpnids and output option
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:58:07 -0600
Ray,

There seems to be a bug in the OUTPUT implementation.
with OUTPUT=f, the file gets written to the first time the 
program is run. When specifying OUTPUT=f/filename, the output
comes to the screen the first time, and to the file the
second time the program is run. I'll have to fix that.

The text data at the end of the NCR product is a data table,
which gets printed as text- as it is in the file. This is the 
command action that the data provides in the NIDS file. On
a pup, there is a text portion of the page that the data goes to.

The information is provided as alphanumeric graphics in other 
NIDS products, which can be plotted in the map coordinates,
for example the storm track, hail, meso cyclone and TVS products 
provide the commands in the NIDS product to display a symbol or 
alphanumerics on a map. The program is just doing what the NIDS 
product is telling it to do with the data.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: "Ray Weber" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200505231426.j4NEQUP3026142

>Trying to send the Storm Attribute output from GPNIDS to a file
>with the output = F option.
>
>It insists on going to the terminal, opens the file, and leaves an empty file.
>I see the storm attributes on the terminal.
>
>I have 5.8.2a Gempak installed.
>
>This is the script snippit:
>Note $1 is the 3 letter Site ID, $2 is the product, $3 is a filename for the G
> if.
>
>It does create an image successfully.
>
>
>gpnids << EOF
>GAREA    = dset
>MAP=31//2 + 11//1
>PROJ     = rad
>IMCBAR = 5/v/LC/.005:.6/.4;.01
>RADFIL   = NEXRIII|$1|$2
>RADTIM  =  LAST
>LATLON   = 0
>PANEL    = 0
>CLEAR    = YES
>COLORS  =7
>TEXT     = .8/2/2/hw
>LINE    = 31/1/4
>TITLE = Massachusetts Skywarn NOAAPORT Radar Image
>DEVICE   = gf|/home/gempak/tmp/wwwimages/$3|800;600|||NP
>OUTPUT = f / storm.dat
>\$mapfil = hipowo.gsf + hicnus.nws
>
>r
>
>
>e
>
>EOF
>gpend
>
>
>I use the NCR product for this. Is there any other support in any gempak progr
> am 
>in place yet to plot the data from NCR?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ray Weber
>Massachusetts Skywarn
>
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