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

[Gerry Creager]

While I really don't want to see Gempak go away, I'm ranching out a bit. 
  I've been real impressed with IDV so far, although there are several 
holes in it.  I've also been pretty well impressed with NCL after 
spending this week with it almost exclusively.

I've also heard more (and in a way, less, about AWIPS2 as I worked on 
Storm Based Warnings over the last two years.

gerry

Rob Dale wrote:
> There’s a nice presentation on it from late last year…
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> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/committees/usercom/2007OctMtg/TuellJune2007Partners.ppt
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> And one from NCEP presented in the fall:
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> http://www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2007/MOS_11/presentations_files/Schotz.pdf
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> 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…
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> -          Rob
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> *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?
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> I just happened to be reading on the Unidata site about IDV and GEMPAK 
> grids when I was alarmed to come upon this statement:
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> "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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