20040914:NIDS to ASCII Nexrad data conversion

Hello Tomislav and David,

I am investigating the transformation from NIDS to ASCII, you can view
some details re the NIDS format at:

http://weather.unisys.com/wxp/Appendices/Formats/NIDS.html

More later..

Jeff
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On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Tomislav Urban wrote:

> Just to add some detail:
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> The documentation calls it "NOAAPort Broadcast" which is, I gather what
> we're getting through LDM.
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> The files used in David's Map2Map are ASCII text files...I'm attaching
> an example.
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> ________________________________
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> From: David Maidment [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:45 PM
> To: Jeff Weber
> Cc: Tomislav Urban
> Subject: FW: Nexrad data conversion
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> Jeff:
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> Can you please respond to the question below.
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> David
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tomislav Urban [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:44 AM
> To: David Maidment
> Cc: Venkatesh Merwade; Oscar Robayo
> Subject: RE: Nexrad data conversion
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> David -
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> This sounds great.  This is exactly the kind of added-value service that
> we would like to offer moving forward.  I will get in touch with Dr.
> Xie.
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> Thanks!
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> -          Tomislav
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> PS: I have begun to receive some of the NexRad data via LDM.  However,
> what I'm getting does not appear to be the same as what is used in
> Map2Map (for one thing the data appears to be binary as opposed to
> text), suggesting that some conversion is required.  I'm attaching the
> file (1-hour precipitation data for a single station).  Oscar and/or
> Venkatesh, please let me know if this is in a format that's familiar to
> you.
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> ________________________________
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> From: David Maidment [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 7:57 AM
> To: Hongjie Xie ; Tomislav Urban
> Cc: Venkatesh Merwade; Oscar Robayo
> Subject: Nexrad data conversion
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> Tomislav:
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> Last Friday, I met a new colleague, Dr Hongjie Xie, of University of
> Texas at San Antonio.
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> Hongjie has just joined the Dept of Earth and Environmental Science
> there from New
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> Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, NM.  While in NM,
> Hongjie
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> worked on "GIS-based NEXRAD Stage III precipitation database: automated
> approaches
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> for data processing and visualization", which is a paper for Computers
> in Geosciences in
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> Press.  As part of this study they have built an archive of Nexrad data
> in ArcGIS format
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> for Texas and New Mexico.   Apparently this archive is about 40GB and is
> stored at
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> NM Tech.  I think it covers nearly all historical nexrad for our region.
> Hongjie has also
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> got computer programs to automate the conversion of Nexrad from NWS
> format to
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> ArcGIS format.
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> It would be useful if you were to contact Hongjie and acquaint him with
> TeraGrid
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> and what you are trying to do for Nexrad data ingestion, Map2Map, etc.
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> David
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