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> To clarify, I was referring to the striping of no color fill within the > analysis (zoom in). The cutting off of the PV-pressure at 150 mb was > planned. > > Jim I see. It is the interferer of Global IR. You can lower the vertical position of the Global IR just a little bit, from -0.005 to -0.009. Yuan > > On 7/28/14, 3:50 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > >> Yuan: > >> > >> Yup, that works. > >> > >> One final question/bug. Fire up the attached bundle and note the > >> holes/lines in the color-filled PV pressure analysis. Any ideas why? I > >> was able to generate this bundle correctly with previous versions of > >> IDV, but keep running into this problem. Seems to be the case in all > >> the IDV 5.x versions I've run. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Jim > > Jim, > > I think this is not a bug. > > You can go to the display control of the color-filled PV and click on > > the Change button > > of contour and set the Minimum value to 50, and you will get better display. > > > > > > Yuan > >> > >> > >> On 7/21/14 5:02 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > >>>> Yuan: > >>>> > >>>> Well, I have a really interesting bug for you with regards to that > >>>> satellite imagery. > >>>> > >>>> Load up the attached bundle. It will look like crap, but this will > >>>> suffice for demonstration purposes. Then for the global WV or IR, > >>>> change either the Legend Label or the Display Label in the property > >>>> window. It will spontaneously change the data sampling to every 5th > >>>> pixel. > >>>> > >>>> Jim > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Jim, > >>> This is a bug, I just checked in the fix this afternoon. You can > >>> download the nightly release > >>> tomorrow morning. > >>> > >>> > >>> Yuan > >>>> On 7/16/14 4:13 PM, Unidata IDV Support wrote: > >>>>>> Hi: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> I've been having some problems loading global satellite data into IDV, > >>>>>> especially in bundles. The data is from the GLOBAL dataset on the > >>>>>> adde.ucar.edu server. When I pull up the Thermal IR composite images, > >>>>>> it defaults to a -5 magnification, so I change it to 1 so I get the > >>>>>> full > >>>>>> grid. However, when I then save to a bundle and reload it, IDV5.0 > >>>>>> downloads and plots the data with the default -5 magnification. See > >>>>>> the > >>>>>> attached globalir.xidv bundle. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Further, all bundles I have created previously (August 2013) that use > >>>>>> the GLOBAL dataset on the adde.ucar.edu server no longer work and > >>>>>> return > >>>>>> an error that says no images satisfy the selection criteria. See > >>>>>> Global-10day.xidv. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Thanks, > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Jim > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> Jim, > >>>>> The magnification bug has been fixed in the nightly release a > >>>>> while ago. You can download and give it a try. > >>>>> > >>>>> The problem of GLOBAL datasets from adde is a different story. > >>>>> A few months ago, Tom made an announcement regarding > >>>>> the changes of these dataset. Basically, the original high resolution > >>>>> datasets are no longer available due to the > >>>>> request of the dataset creator SSEC. They are getting paid to generate > >>>>> these high resolution datasets for certain customers and > >>>>> do not want to see the Unidata making them freely available. So, we > >>>>> replace these global datasets with lower resolution datasets, > >>>>> and this means the IDV users need to redo the bundle. Sorry about the > >>>>> trouble. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Yuan > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>> Ticket Details > >>>>> =================== > >>>>> Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 > >>>>> Department: Support IDV > >>>>> Priority: Normal > >>>>> Status: Closed > >>>>> > >>>> > >>> Ticket Details > >>> =================== > >>> Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 > >>> Department: Support IDV > >>> Priority: Normal > >>> Status: Closed > >>> > >> > >> > > > > Ticket Details > > =================== > > Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 > > Department: Support IDV > > Priority: Normal > > Status: Closed > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZQH-336619 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open