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14 February 2019

GOES16 and GOES17 ABI products are distributed in NetCDF4 formatted files, and GEMPAK as of release 7.5.1 can now read and display these products in their native formats (it is no longer needed to convert netCDF to McIDAS area format to display in GEMPAK).

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GEMPAK 7.4.3 Released

17 September 2018

GEMPAK 7.4.3 has been released. This is a minor update with the following changes:

Full support for GOES ABI fixed grid projection McIDAS AREA format (UNIWISC)
New AWIPS lutfils for GOES 16 IR and WV channels (View samples)
Corrected a bug in 7.4.2 snow squall warnings which caused dcwarn to generate false FFW warnings
Updated zlib, HDF5, netCDF

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GEMPAK 7.4.2

10 April 2018

CONUS imagery in GEMPAK 7.4.2

GEMPAK 7.4.2 is available as source code and binary packages for CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Fedora Core, and Ubuntu/Debian Linux.

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GEMPAK 7.4.1

15 September 2017

GEMPAK 7.4.1 is available as source code and binary packages for CentOS 6, CentOS 7, Fedora Core (26), and Ubuntu Linux (16.04).

Downloads:

https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/

Release notes:

https://github.com/Unidata/gempak/releases

This release contains the following updates:

Grib2 table updates for moisture, momentum, mass, radiation, hydrology, cloud/aerosol, more.
Removed repetitive dcmetr log messages.
Pattern actions in ldm/etc/templates/pqact.gempak_decoders_grid for NamDNG and the National Blend of Models.
Alias/mod_res updates, increased max # grids in file for gfs, nam, URMA, others.
Bug fix for AWIPS grid retrieval in scripts/python/GridDataRetriever.py