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20001121: Update: help completing install (cont.)

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  • Subject: 20001121: Update: help completing install (cont.)
  • Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:22:41 -0700
>From: Gary Cunning <address@hidden>
>Organization: NCAR/RAP
>Keywords: 200011061722.eA6HMI408974 GOES imagery

Gary,

>After working through the Learning guide I have found how to access the
>"storm of the century" dataset.

OK.  So you will not be installing it locally, but, rather, will be
going to a remote server to see the data?

>In addition I have pulled back some of
>the AREA files from ftb2 and AWCSERV.BAT.

OK.

>I edited AWCSERV.BAT so that
>the DIRFILE keyword points to the correct locations.

Excellent.

>I think my only
>question now is "how do I run or execute AWCSERV.BAT?"

You would CD to your McIDAS working directory (this would be ~mcidas/workdata
if you are the user 'mcidas'; it would be ~user/mcidas/data if you were the
user 'user') and then run the McIDAS BATCH command:

batch.k AWCSERV.BAT

Tom

>From address@hidden Tue Nov 28 14:06:17 2000

Hi Tom:

Does mcidas support the calculation of the satellite, solar and relative
angles at each pixel of a satellite image? By the way the only
satellites to consider are GOES east and west.

Regards,
Gary

>From address@hidden Tue Nov 28 16:48:12 2000

Hi Tom:

I think I found the command for the satellite calculation. The command
is navcalc. 

Here is what I have done. First the aliases:

AKA                                                                             
 
Alias Name                    
Group/Descriptor                                  
--------------------         ----------------------------------------           
GI4A                          GOES8/IR4KM                                       
GI4B                          GOES8/IR4KM2                                      
GI4C                          GOES8/IR4KM5                                      
GV4                           GOES8/VISKM2                                      
AKA -- done                                                                     
 
Navcalc results:

NAVCALC GI4A INV TYPE=I LATLON=43:08 89:21
HEIGHT=1                              
Times shown are for solar
position.                                              
Satellite positions based on codicil from 2000326
18:15:16                       
    date      time     lin    ele     lat       lon     hgt   sat solar 
relaz   
21-Nov-00  18:15:00   3915  13436  43:08:00  089:21:00  1.0  51.8 
63.1   29.3   
Done                                                                            
 

I think the  next step is to compare the definitions of the angles.

Regards,
Gary
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