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[IDD #IDT-103545]: IDD - FNEXRAD composite quality

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  • Subject: [IDD #IDT-103545]: IDD - FNEXRAD composite quality
  • Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:20:43 -0600
John,

As mentioned previously, we have received a feed of the NSSL group's LDM 
product,
for evaluation for distributing via our IDD. I added the ability for GEMPAK to 
display that product.
The gzipped NetCDF file is a little awkwrd at the moment, so hopefully another 
option of NetCDF4 with 
compression, GRIB2 etc could be done.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

> Institution: Museum of Science
> Package Version: N/A
> Operating System: N/A
> Hardware Information: N/A
> Inquiry: We've been trying to use the FNEXRAD composites for public display 
> and education - but the problem we've always had with them is that they 
> suffer from a lack of quality a control.  At least last we tried, they were 
> full of sun beams, clutter, and other artifacts.  For our portion of New 
> England at least, we've been running NSSL's WDSS-II suite and generating our 
> own much higher quality composites from the NEXRAD2 feed and converting them 
> into GEMPAK grids for display.  The results are stunning.  It is my 
> understanding that NSSL has a big cluster they run WDSS-II on merging every 
> nexrad site into a national mosiac.  Given that it is very possible to 
> convert the data into GEMPAK grids in real-time, is there any interest in 
> working with them to inject at least the composite reflectivity mosiac 
> (MergedReflectivityComposite) into the IDD?
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: IDT-103545
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: High
Status: Closed