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[IDV #HIC-347151]: IDV v.2.9u1: National radar mosaic

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  • Subject: [IDV #HIC-347151]: IDV v.2.9u1: National radar mosaic
  • Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:07:28 -0700
Hi Dave,

I am not seeing the attached bundle in question. Could you try again?

Thanks.

-Julien

> Yuan and/or Julien,
> 
> Does the IDV display national radar mosaic data in GRIB2 format? I just 
> started getting these files and tried to display one of them using IDV v2.9u1 
> running under Mac OS X v10.6.4, but without success.
> 
> I told the IDV that the source is a GRID file (netCDF/GRIB/..). The IDV 
> correctly recognized the one field in the file ("Base_reflectivity @ 
> surface") and the time (a single time, down to the minute), and when I 
> specified a color-filled or color-shaded plan view, the IDV chose the 
> DbZ(NWS) color table with a range from 0 to 80. This is all very promising.
> 
> However, after spending a while loading the data (the file is almost 3 MB in 
> size), the resulting display is...blank. I can't seem to coax anything out of 
> it.
> 
> Am I missing something?
> 
> I've attached a bundle that reproduces what I tried. The data are accessible 
> via our RAMADDA server.
> 
> -- Dave
> 
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: HIC-347151
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open