[gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?

[Robert Mullenax]

Thanks for the links.  With I imagine thousands of GEMPAK scripts running around the world I would imagine I am not the only one a bit nervous, though.




-----Original Message-----
From: gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu on behalf of Rob Dale
Sent: Wed 1/9/2008 8:02 PM
To: gembud at unidata.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?
 
There's a nice presentation on it from late last year.

 

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/committees/usercom/2007OctMtg/TuellJune2007Partn
ers.ppt

 

And one from NCEP presented in the fall:

 

http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2007/MOS_11/presentations
_files/Schotz.pdf

 

 

I don't see the words "going away" in there, I just think that 1) it's an
unknown entity right now and 2) might be more complex than just downloading
a new binary so 3) if you want to be sure you can read GEMPAK files in 10
years, you'll be safe with IDV.

 

-          Rob

 

From: gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu
[mailto:gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Mullenax
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:33 PM
To: gembud at unidata.ucar.edu
Subject: [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?

 

I just happened to be reading on the Unidata site about IDV and GEMPAK grids
when I was alarmed to come upon this statement:


"The second pressing issue is the impending transition of NAWIPS/GEMPAK to
AWIPS2 in the next 3-5 years. At this point, it is unknown how that will
impact Unidata's GEMPAK users, but the committee thought that having IDV
support GEMPAK data files would be a way for GEMPAK users to transition to
the IDV if they wanted."


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