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20051031: Displaying nexrad II in IDV

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  • Subject: 20051031: Displaying nexrad II in IDV
  • Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:47:10 -0700
>From: "Arthur A. Person" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Penn State
>Keywords: 200510311725.j9VHPM7s011511 IDV level II radar

Hi Art-

>> What was the exact error message.  Did is say it wasn't there or
>> that it couldn't open it?  Are these uncompressed from NCDC or
>> bzipp'ed files?
>
>Okay, I figured it out.  It said "Unknown location of selected files, 
>please select from list".  After staring at the menu a moment, I realized 
>I had to tell it which radar site the data was for, which surprised me. 
>I thought it would have known that automatically when I selected the data 
>files using the data file headers.  Is there any reason it can't just use 
>the headers, or is this a holdover from when the headers used to be 
>inadequate?

Just a holdover.  It's on my list of things to do. ;-)  If you put
the files in a directory with the radar id, it will guess it from
that.  Otherwise, you'll have to specify the location for now.

>BTW, it also "just works" with the NCDC data, which will help us a lot.

Great.  Let me know if you have other questions.

Don Murray
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