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Point

Commands in this category operate on point data, including McIDAS MD files containing conventional data such as synoptic, surface hourly, ship, buoy, and upper-air observations.

Command

Purpose

ALTIM

Creates an MD file with standard aviation heights or pressures.

DOQTL

Selectively deletes MD files.

FOUSDISP

Plots FOUS data from FOUS14 point files.

HODO

Displays a hodograph of radiosonde or other sounding data.

ISENT

Calculates theta surface levels for upper air data.

LSCHE

Lists an MD file schema.

MDDPI

Creates Derived Product Image from MD and AREA files.

MDE

Edits MD files.

MDFIX

Replaces station information (LAT, LON, ZS, ST, CO) in ISFC files.

MDU

MD file utility.

MDX

Plots or grids data from MD files or grids.

MFPLOT

Plots a frequency distribution of MD file data.

NLDNDISP

Plot/Contour NLDN lightning data.

PIRPPLOT

Plots pilot and air report from PIRP schema point files.

PROFDISP

Plots FSL wind profiler data.

PROFSECT

Plots vertical time series of FSL-profiler wind fields.

PTCON

Converts point data to grids; displays contours and plots.

PTCOPY

Copies point data from one dataset to another.

PTDISP

Displays point data.

PTLIST

Lists point data in a dataset.

RAOBCON

Contours upper-air data from IRAB-schema point files.

RAOBPLOT

Plots upper-air data from IRAB-schema point files.

SCHE

Adds a schema to the schema file.

SFCCON

Contours surface hourly data from ISFC-schema point files.

SFCLIST

Lists surface hourly data from point files.

SFCMG

Displays a surface meteorogram.

SFCPLOT

Plots surface hourly data from ISFC-schema point files.

TXT2MD

Creates an MD file from an ASCII text data file.

UACROSS

Plots a vertical cross section of upper-air data.

UALIST

Lists upper air data.

UAPLOT

Plots a sounding on a thermodynamic diagram.


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