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Re: Help with NEXRAD decoding software

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  • 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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