20020213: 20011025: IDD feed of NNEXRAD for Naval Research Lab

Michael,

If you are running Unidata's MCIDAS or GEMPAK programs, they
will read the zlib compressed Level III products directly.

If you are looking for a stand alone program, you could try the ucnids.c
program posted by Dan Veitor:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/coohl/mhonarc/MailArchives/ldm-users-list/msg01432.html

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: "Frost, Mr. Michael" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200202131757.g1DHvGx23280

>Anne.  What tool should be used to decompress the level III data?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Anne Wilson [mailto:address@hidden]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 9:51 AM
>To: Frost, Mr. Michael
>Cc: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: 20011025: IDD feed of NNEXRAD for Naval Research Lab
>
>
>"Frost, Mr. Michael" wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Anne.
>> 
>> The LDM that we set up here is running on a PC LINUX box.  The data that
>> NNEXRAD data that we get in is probably 'big endian', right?  LDM doesn't
>do
>> any byte swapping or anything like that does it?
>> 
>> Also, according to the website the NEXRAD level III data is in NIDS
>format.
>> Is that true?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>> 
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>I do not know which endian form the NEXRAD data is in.  I can say,
>however, that endian form has not been an issue on any of our supported
>platforms, including Linux.
>
>Yes, the NEXRAD level III data is in NIDS format.  Additionally, the
>NEXRAD data that you are getting via the IDD is also compressed.   
>
>Anne
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