960201: NETCDF question

>From: address@hidden (Jeff Wilson)
>Organization: ABoM
>Keywords: 199601312211.AA16901 netCDF McIDAS

Jeff,

>I meant to ask Tom in the email I sent him yesterday how you people are
>using NETCDF. 

I have not yet got to answering your email.  I will try to get to it 
tomorrow.

>What we would be interested in knowing is if you are taking 
>NWP gridded data storing it in NETCDF form 

Yes.

>and then accessing it from 
>McIDAS 

No, not yet.  We plan to write a McIDAS data server to do this.

>either via a temporary flat file structure or somehow you have
> McIDAS reading NETCDF grids directly. This would be in line with what
>the SSEC are saying is the longer term future. 

We are hoping that SSEC gets really serious about doing this.  We will do
it if they don't, but the timeframe would be sometime in the summer.

>Any comments that you care to offer would be welcome.

Talk to you tomorrow...

Tom