20051130: 20051130: QuikSCAT winds in GEMPAK

Michael,

The version release note of 5.6.e said the original development was
done for the MPC. However, since the TPC works with NCEP in development of
GEMPAK's capabilities for their needs, I'm assuming you have an
official point of contact for GEMPAK at NCO.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Michael Brennan <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200511301754.jAUHsX7s020430

>Hi Steve,
>
>Thanks for the information.  As far as I know, we here at TPC are 
>receiving only the BUFR products being sent over NOAAPORT at this time. 
>  I'll check around and see where I can get the gridded product from.
>
>Thanks again,
>-Mike
>
>Unidata Support wrote:
>> Michael,
>> 
>> The BUFR products being sent in NOAAPORT are prepared by JPL.
>> I added the code to read these products and follow the plotting
>> that NCEP is doing with the data they have in house. NCEP has access 
>> to a gridded product which JPL is producing which is what the QSCT 
>> datatype is referencing (the reading and display of that data
>> follows from the ggqsrd.f routine (called by ggqsct.f).
>> 
>> Since you are at one of the locations that the NCEP developers
>> support, you probably have direct access to the gridded product.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>> 
>> 
>>>From: Michael Brennan <address@hidden>
>>>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>>>Keywords: 200511301600.jAUG0F7s005343
>> 
>> 
>>>Hi Steve,
>>>
>>>I have a question about the data format with which the real-time 
>>>QuikSCAT data is sent through the LDM for display in GEMPAK.  I know the 
>>>data is in BUFR format, which allows for display with gpmap or in NMAP2. 
>>> However, I'm interested in computing derived quantities from the wind 
>>>vector and ambiguity fields, which I can't do unless I have the full 
>>>vector wind values in a grid.  I'm wondering if there is a way I can 
>>>read the BUFR data, perhaps with a Fortran program, and generate a 
>>>GEMPAK grid file with the wind data that I could compute vorticity, 
>>>divergence, etc., with.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any advice.
>>>
>>>-Mike
>>>-- 
>>>Dr. Michael J. Brennan
>>>UCAR Visiting Scientist
>>>NOAA/NWS/Tropical Prediction Center
>>>Email: address@hidden
>>>Phone: (305) 229-4439
>>>
>> 
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