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[GEMPAK #AOT-532053]: Wind Radii Plot

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #AOT-532053]: Wind Radii Plot
  • Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 11:37:30 -0600
Hello Jose, 

Unfortunately GEMPAK does not have a routine to plot wind radii over satellite 
imagery.  The only solution I can think of is contouring wind speed from a grid 
file with the GDPLOT2 program, but that will not produce the discrete radius 
lengths that you desire.  NMAP2 has a product generation palette for manually 
drawing but that is not what you are looking for either.

Sorry for being the bearer of bad news, but GEMPAK does not support what you 
want to do.

Best,

Michael James
Unidata Support



> Hello,
> Could please anyone from Support help me out?.
> I'm trying to plot Not Smoothed Contours 34, 50, 64 knt wind Radii NE SE NW
> SW in nmi for a given point LAT/LON in order to get size estimates.
> 
> For example a 34 knt wind contour  given :
> (NE,SE,NW,SW): 69 63 71 78 nmi for lat, lon: 32.25 -77.64
> Does any Gempak program support wind Radii plotting or way to do that?.
> 
> Attached are two illustrations gif files of what I'm trying to accomplish.
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your time.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jose.
> 
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: AOT-532053
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Open