Re: level-II mosaics

Gregg,

The mosaics I produce in GEMPAK are from level III data. I produce them
both as grids and images. Level II could be done, but
some sites (DOD/FAA) aren't available.

Ken Howard/Steve Vassilov and group at NSSL is producing
a level II mosaic in 2d and 3d for use with QPESUMS. They are doing
more processing to remove clutter, brightband freezing level and sun
attenuation etc. and have gridded volumes. I have aded the display of
these NetCDF grids to my GEMPAK release. We are hoping that they will
make the data available via IDD in the near future.

See:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/Presentations/UPCsemseries/NMQ_UnidataPres_New.pdf

Other references
http://www.copernicus.org/erad/2004/online/ERAD04_P_105.pdf
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/86485.pdf 
http://ams.confex.com/ams/32Rad11Meso/techprogram/paper_95704.htm
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrd/wish/q2/agenda.shtml

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 13:00, Gregory Grosshans wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I'm trying to gather additional information about level-II mosaic 
> imagery for N-AWIPS.   Its my understanding you have software to create 
> radar level-II mosaic data that is displayable in the Unidata N-AWIPS.
> 
> Can you please provide information about the data format (e.g. image 
> data and type of image format, or a gempak grid) and perhaps why you 
> chose one format (e.g. image over a gempak grid, or vice versa) over 
> another?  Also, what type of CPU processing is required to create the 
> level-II mosaic and what resolution is the mosaic?  What characteristics 
> of the Unidata version of N-AWIPS allows the data to be displayed (e.g. 
> array x had to be increased)?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregg
>