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

[Mark.Keehn at noaa.gov]

I would wait and see what happens before making your final decision.  If
national support for GEMPAK does go away, it would only be after it's
capabilities have been integrated in to AWIPS2.  My understanding is
that AWIPS2 will be non-proprietary so that the private and academic
sectors will be able to use the software and contribute to the knowledge
base.  If the National Centers are being brought on board, hopefully
AWIPS2 will be better for viewing weather data on a global scale.   

Mark Keehn
NWS Houston, TX

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McIDAS would be the way we would move if something did happen to GEMPAK.  It's ability to deal with model data is not anywhere nearly as good, but the new MySQL database storage of GRIB data does make it faster, and text products via the wxtlist, tafrpt, sclist, sfcrpt has always been pretty good...and of course satellite is still it's strong suit.  We are heavy users of it right now for certain things.

That being said if I ever get a new machine with 4GB of RAM ee will install IDV on it since it runs on Solaris x86/x64 now.  I have already played around with it quite a bit on my personal laptop.




-----Original Message-----
From: gembud-bounces at unidata.ucar.edu on behalf of Gerry Creager
Sent: Thu 1/10/2008 12:22 AM
To: Rob Dale
Cc: gembud at unidata.ucar.edu
Subject: Re: [gembud] GEMPAK going away in 3-5 years?
 
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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