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[Support #DDU-727620]: Converting GEMPAK radar to NetCDF

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  • Subject: [Support #DDU-727620]: Converting GEMPAK radar to NetCDF
  • Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:15:00 -0700
Nancy,

GEMPAK does not use its own "radar" format, but rather just reads the
data from its native format, so there is not a specific "decoder"
related to GEMPAK, though you might find a program which
can convert the raw radar files into NetCDF files.

I did provide a program "nex2img" which can be used to create a raster image
of the radar data which can be used with GIS mapserver tools as
Daryl Herzmann describes on his site:

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/docs/radmapserver/howto.html

Daryl has lots of information about mapserver and the use in GIS which may be
what you are looking for!

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: DDU-727620
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed