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Re: Help with NEXRAD decoding software
- Subject: Re: Help with NEXRAD decoding software
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:42:24 -0600
Sunil Punnoose wrote:
>
> Anne:
>
> I found your email from one Unidata pages. After an exhaustive search
> on the web and finding nothing that i could use, I thought I'd turn to
> someone in field, you :-).
>
> Now that the NEXRAD data is available to all from the NWS, I am looking
> for software that will help image it. I have access to custom maps of
> the US but I am looking for some pointers on how to decode the data. Are
> there commercial or public domain C, C++ or Java libraries that we can
> use to decode the data?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Sunil
Sunil,
I know of three packages to view the data, but there are probably more.
The packages I know of are WXP, McIDAS, and GEMPAK. I think GEMPACK is
public domain. If you'd like more info about it send email to
address@hidden. It will be forwarded to the appropriate
person. He is currently on vacation but will respond when he returns.
SSEC distibutes McIDAS commercially. For more info send email to
address@hidden.
Dan Vietor at UNISYS has a very nice NIDS web page that gives enough
info to decode the data:
http://weather.unisys.com/wxp/Appendices/Formats/NIDS.html
I think this is a nicer version of the info that appears in the NWS
technical document available via
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/noaaport/html/noaaport.shtml
Dan is also the author of WXP. I think WXP is being marketed by UNISYS,
but I'm not sure. Maybe he can help you - email him directly at: "Dan
Vietor" <address@hidden>
Anne
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