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Christian, GEMPAK does not have any "decoders" for these products. If you know the format of the reports, then you can create a GEMPAK file to plot the data. For example, the sferics data could be put into a GEMPAK ship file just as we do for the NLDN data. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >From: Christian Page <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200106130728.f5D7Sqp29118 > >> >> >I wonder if GEMPAK or McIDAS can plot this WMO data: >> >DWIH15 EGRR >> >ASXX21 EGRR >> >SFUK30 >> >SFUK31 >> >> McIDAS can list these products (if one is running XCD and getting the >> data by satellite broadcast or the IDD), but I don't think that they >> are decoded into plottable form. Can you shed some light on what these >> products contain (I am not familiar with them)? >> >SFUK30 and SFUK31 are SFLOC products from METOFFICE. This is lightning data fo > r >Europe (example at http://imkpc3.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/wz/pics/Rsfloc.gif ) > >ASXX21 are Bracknell analysis for East Atlantic/Europe. > >DWIH15, it is supposed to be an analysis, but I don't know exactly what's in >there... > >Christian Page >UQAM > > >Replied: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:28:45 -0600 >Replied: support-mcidas >Replied: Christian Page <address@hidden> >From address@hidden Tue Jun 12 08:44:39 2001 >Received: from uqam.ca (anis.telecom.uqam.ca [132.208.250.6]) > by unidata.ucar.edu (UCAR/Unidata) with ESMTP id f5CEidp04666 > for <address@hidden>; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:44:39 -0600 (MDT) >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200106121444.f5CEidp04666 >Received: from atlas.sca.uqam.ca (atlas.sca.uqam.ca [132.208.133.177]) > by uqam.ca (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f5CEiZP21839 > for <address@hidden>; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:44:35 -0400 (EDT) >Received: from localhost (page@localhost) > by atlas.sca.uqam.ca (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA129996 > for <address@hidden>; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:44:37 -0400 >Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:44:36 -0400 (EDT) >From: Christian Page <address@hidden> >To: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >Subject: DWIH15 ASXX21 SFUK30 SFUK31 >In-Reply-To: <address@hidden> >Message-ID: <address@hidden> >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > >Hi, > >I wonder if GEMPAK or McIDAS can plot this WMO data: >DWIH15 EGRR >ASXX21 EGRR >SFUK30 >SFUK31 > >Thanks, > >Christian Page >UQAM > >