20030313: Nexrad images ETL/NOAA

Hi David, 

If having issues downloading GEMPAK I would suggest you place the question
to address@hidden

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> On the plot, the user has requested county boarders and names and state
> boarders. Once I have the radar/boarder image, I will need to put the
Infrasound
> directional line plot on top of the image. Can GEMPAK handle a second
data
> stream and do that kind of plot? If I get PostScript from GEMPAK, I
> will
need to
> convert to PNG for the Web, so I hope I can reverse black and white to
get an
> equivalent AWIPS black background plot.

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Yes (do you know the format of the infrasound line plot, it may need some 
work, or an existing application within GEMPAK may be able to make use of 
it, but I do not foresee problems), yes, and yes...

-Jeff
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, David Welsh wrote:

> Jeff Weber wrote:
> > 
> > Hello David,
> > 
> > Yes, this should all be quite do-able..
> > 
> > I have one main question:
> > 
> > Are you running GEMPAK?
> > 
> > and if not, are you willing to load?
> > 
> > This would allow you the easiest method of generating "AWIPS-like"
> > imagery.
> > 
> > I have attached a sample .gif of a N0R tilt from FTG (the front range
> > radar) generated via GEMPAK..
> > 
> > There is no Boulder radar...but Pueblo,Cheyenne, and Goodland
> > exist..Boulder uses FTG.
> > 
> > Let me know if this is close to what you have in mind.
> > 
> > Many features that are available (streets, cities, counties, rivers) are
> > not all included in this image, but is user configurable.
> > 
> > Also, since it goes first to postscript the background is white, the
> > default for the comp screen is a black background..
> > 
> > This will allow me some info on how best to proceed with getting you the
> > data in a useable format..
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > -Jeff
> 
> Jeff,
> 
> Thanks for the info and plot. It looks like this is what I want to start 
> with. I
> do not have GEMPAK but I can load it. I tried this morning but I cannot log 
> into
> the unidata server. I have an email into address@hidden for
> help. I am getting the data into my LDM product queue, but my pqact.conf
> directive is not saving the data files. The configure pqact in GEMPAK should
> help.
> 
> On the plot, the user has requested county boarders and names and state
> boarders. Once I have the radar/boarder image, I will need to put the 
> Infrasound
> directional line plot on top of the image. Can GEMPAK handle a second data
> stream and do that kind of plot? If I get PostScript from GEMPAK, I will need 
> to
> convert to PNG for the Web, so I hope I can reverse black and white to get an
> equivalent AWIPS black background plot.
> 
> I will let you know when I have GEMPAK installed and we can go from there.
> -- 
> David C. Welsh
> US DoC, NOAA MC R/ET
> 325 Broadway
> Boulder, CO 80305
> 
> O (303) 497-6510  F (303) 497-6978
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>