Hi Greg, re: > Thanks for letting me know. I saw the apparent capability to > handle these datatypes was already in GEMPAK5.11.4. EUMETSAT claims > they are distributing the ASCAT data in buffer format via the GTS - I > thought maybe the two would go together. Too bad. Oops, I stand corrected. I just did a Google (tm) search using 'ASCAT noaaport' and found: http://www.weather.gov/os/notification/tin08-29scatterometer.txt This NOAAPort Technical Implementation Notice appears to have all of the information you need. I would check the HDS datastream for the data... Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZWV-456739 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Closed