RE: 20040914:NIDS to ASCII Nexrad data conversion

Hi Tomislav,

done on emo..bigbird is still not flying, but it will be added as soon as
she is up and flying again ;)


Cheers,

Jeff
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Tomislav Urban wrote:

> Jeff -
>
> I'm setting up our production box now.
>
> Could you add granger.tacc.utexas.edu to the bigbird and emo upstream
> servers?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Tomslav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Weber [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:20 PM
> To: Tomislav Urban
> Cc: address@hidden; David Maidment
> Subject: 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:
> >
> >
> >
> > The documentation calls it "NOAAPort Broadcast" which is, I gather
> what
> > we're getting through LDM.
> >
> > The files used in David's Map2Map are ASCII text files...I'm attaching
> > an example.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeff:
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you please respond to the question below.
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> > -----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
> >
> > David -
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > -          Tomislav
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > Tomislav:
> >
> >
> >
> > Last Friday, I met a new colleague, Dr Hongjie Xie, of University of
> > Texas at San Antonio.
> >
> > Hongjie has just joined the Dept of Earth and Environmental Science
> > there from New
> >
> > Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, NM.  While in
> NM,
> > Hongjie
> >
> > worked on "GIS-based NEXRAD Stage III precipitation database:
> automated
> > approaches
> >
> > for data processing and visualization", which is a paper for Computers
> > in Geosciences in
> >
> > Press.  As part of this study they have built an archive of Nexrad
> data
> > in ArcGIS format
> >
> > for Texas and New Mexico.   Apparently this archive is about 40GB and
> is
> > stored at
> >
> > NM Tech.  I think it covers nearly all historical nexrad for our
> region.
> > Hongjie has also
> >
> > got computer programs to automate the conversion of Nexrad from NWS
> > format to
> >
> > ArcGIS format.
> >
> >
> >
> > It would be useful if you were to contact Hongjie and acquaint him
> with
> > TeraGrid
> >
> > and what you are trying to do for Nexrad data ingestion, Map2Map, etc.
> >
> >
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> >
> >
>