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------- Forwarded Message Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:49:55 -0600 From: Russ Rew <address@hidden> To: Dick Oye <address@hidden> Subject: Re: NEXRAD Level 2 data and display Hi Dick, The OU/CAPS/UW Level II radar project (project CRAFT, see <http://www.caps.ou.edu/CAPS/craft.html> or <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/craft/craft/>) that is currently distributing some level 2 data via Unidata's LDM is using a custom compression scheme to fit the data in a 56k bandwidth, so is not using netCDF for this. When I type the keywords "netcdf radar polar" in to the google search engine at http://www.google.com/, it returns 75 matches, but I haven't looked at all of these to see if any might be relevant. This one might be of interest, from NOAA/FSL: http://laps.fsl.noaa.gov/frd/laps/albers/remapper_raw.html I checked and couldn't find any radar CDLs in the AWIPS CDLs we have or in the NUWG conventions, so I don't know of anything else for polar form without checking all of the search engine hits ... - --Russ > I want to follow up on some of our quick conversations in the lunch > line on UNIDATA's plans for acquiring, distributing, and displaying > the level 2 data. My primary interest is a widely acceptable netcdf > form of radar and lidar data as scanned and I would like to know if > anyone anywhere has already tackled this. > > I don't know whether this is an issue or not for your project. I have > not yet been in contact with UW folks but I have some second hand > information that their primary interest is in generating a gridded > data set and would have no need for netcdf data in polar form. This is > an interest I share and have done some work on for a seperate USWRP > project but ATD's interest is in accessability to radar and lidar data > in polar form as scanned. > > -- > Dick Oye address@hidden > Research Data Program address@hidden > Atmospheric Technology Division > National Center for Atmospheric Research Voice: 303-497-8809 > P.O. Box 3000 Fax: 303-497-2044 > Boulder, Co. 80307-3000 ------- End of Forwarded Message