I asked about WDSS at one point and was told that they wont release
the source code due to some funding being cut or something.
This package also allows you to work on algorithims. It would
be real nice to have this code available to the educational community.
Ray
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael W Dross
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:05 PM
> To: Robert Mullenax
> Cc: ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; owner-ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: NIDS display in general (was RE: 20040505: CRAFT data
> hardware)
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> The NSSL package that is being sent to the NWSFO's is WDSS.
> It is an awesome software package that ingest level II Wideband data and
> using it's own
> algorithms to generate and plot TVS,MESO, Hail Size etc. It tracks storm
> attributes
> and cross sectional analysis (RHI) and more.
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> http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/wrd/msd/wdss.html
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> With new Fair Weather Policy the NWS is about to adopt, we might be able
> to get the code (linux) of WDSS. That would make Level II worth having.
> Otherwise the best we have to display Level II data is GEMPAK and its very
> limited with no Attribute decoding/plotting.
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> I think we ought to push to get the WDSS software made available to the
> University and Private Sectors. The would really make the best use of
> Level II data IMHO.
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