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20000728: Raw Radar reports

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  • Subject: 20000728: Raw Radar reports
  • Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:57:27 -0600
Tom,
Yes, they are the digital precipitation array. Most of those products 
are very small. I have some documentation of the data format I downloaded from
NOAA's web server. I can dig up the URL if you want it.

Steve Chiswell

On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Tom McDermott wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Do you know what the 'HDS SDUS8.*/pDPA' products are?  Digital
> Precipitation Array maybe?
> 
> Tom McDermott
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> > Hawaii is SDUS40 (4 radars there). Thats the only difference between
> > 4[1-6] and 4[0-6]. When at all possible, I use the /pRCM tag to ensure
> > that the data file only gets RCM's.
> > 
> > Chiz
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, David J. Knight wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I'm only interested in the RCM data for gempak radar
> > > summary plots. I got this pattern from
> > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/examples/gprcm
> > > Actually they get 4[0-6], I'm not sure why mine
> > > is different now (I hope I'm not missing any).
> > > I like to have my patterns as tight as possible,
> > > but your pattern should also elimate the NIDS
> > > *I think* - not an expert in this area...
> > > 
> > > David
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, David J. Knight wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Your pattern will also match SDUS97 which I think are the
> > > > > experimental NIDS products.
> > > > > You might change it to
> > > > > WMO    ^SDUS(4[1-6])
> > > > 
> > > > But wouldn't this exclude all the SDUS5x and SDUS8x products, of which
> > > > there are a lot?  Wouldn't something like
> > > > 
> > > > WMO     ^SDUS[1-9][1-6]
> > > > 
> > > > exclude just the SDUS97 products?
> > > > 
> > > > Tom
> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Tom McDermott                           Email: address@hidden
> > > > System Administrator                    Phone: (716) 395-5718
> > > > Earth Sciences Dept.                    Fax: (716) 395-2416
> > > > SUNY College at Brockport
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