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>From: "Batson, Bryan" <address@hidden> >Organization: JSC >Keywords: 200303241940.h2OJdvB2026150 McIDAS BUFR Hi Bryan, Sorry it took so long to get back to you on this, but I was involved in the NSF panel review of our 5 year funding proposal. This is now finished, so I can get back to all of my other pending work. >FYI...I don't know if Unidata was ever planning a BUFR->netCDF decoder for >McIDAS, but it looks like the AWIPS D2D may have one at some point. > >Thoughts? I had not planned to create a BUFR to netCDF converter, but, then again, I had not planned to _not_ create one either. I agree with you that this development will be important. The thing I have to find is the time to do the work. Tom >Bryan >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Batson, Bryan >> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 1:26 PM >> To: HOETH, BRIAN R. (JSC) >> Cc: Biggerstaff, Brice >> Subject: AWIPS BUFR->NetCDF? >> >> Brian, >> >> I found this in a test case list for D2D build 5.0-78: >> >> Hourly BUFR Model >> Soundings - Modify >> acq_patterns.template >> as necessary to >> accommodate new >> raw data files; Create >> a directory to store >> the raw files/add to >> mkdirs.csh; create >> new BUFR decoder >> to accommodate new >> data files; create >> station table similar >> to >> raobStationInfor.txt >> to contain metadata >> describing the >> locaions of model >> soundings; make >> decoder recognize >> new messages as >> model sounding, >> check model sation >> into to determine >> storage; >> geographically filter >> data only over the >> WFO's regional area; >> set up netCDF files >> to store model >> soundings; create >> directories in whic >> hto store the data; >> add to mkdirs.csh; >> add new netCDF >> directoreis to the data >> purger >> >> >> Could this help us in MIDDS? Does your AWIPS have this already? >> >> It looks like this would have potential to save some time on developing a >> BUFR->netCDF decoder. >> >> BB Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support