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[IDV #RGL-474313]: IDV v2.9u4: Reading Satellite data from NOAA's CLASS archive
- Subject: [IDV #RGL-474313]: IDV v2.9u4: Reading Satellite data from NOAA's CLASS archive
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:04:48 -0600
> Julian or Yuan,
>
> One of my colleagues, John Monteverdi (a synoptic meteorologist), has
> discovered NOAA's Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS).
> He downloaded some archived images in AREA format and I've downloaded a
> couple more, one in AREA format and another in NetCDF format (which of course
> is much larger). I then tried to view them in the IDV.
>
> No luck for either one, though I tried specifying several input file formats
> (MCIDAS AREA files and Image files (GINI) for the AREA files, and Grid files
> (NetCDF/GRIB/OpenDAP/GEMPAK) for the NetCDF files, and "I'm feeling lucky"
> for both.
Hi Dave,
Can you upload a few sample files? We do support area file in the IDV, and
would like to see what is the problem here.
http://motherlode.ucar.edu/repository/alias/idvupload
Thanks,
Yuan
>
> Am I missing something, or is there something about those particular file
> formats that the IDV can't read? (We can't read the MCIDAS AREA files that we
> get via the MCIDAS feed using the LDM, either, which I've asked about in the
> past. Is this the same issue, perhaps?)
>
> John Monteverdi is also excited about NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit,
> which he finds easier to use for displaying radar and satellite data than the
> IDV (though he admits that he hasn't used the IDV for viewing satellite
> data--he's basing his judgement on difficulties he's had figuring out how to
> use the IDV for some other purposes). I'm trying to get a sense of what the
> IDV can do with satellite data that NOAA's Weather and Climate Toolkit can't,
> and vice versa--are you in a position to comment on that?
>
> (For one thing, the Toolkit will view the AREA files downloaded from CLASS.)
>
> -- Dave
>
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RGL-474313
Department: Support IDV
Priority: Normal
Status: Open