Kevin:
I use GARP extenstively in my courses here at U-MI, as well. GEMPAK
itself seems to provide the best option for scripting/creating images for
our electronic map room, as well as for graphics included in publications
and reports. While IDV has great flexibility in terms of reading in
datafiles from a number of different formats (such as not needing to
convert netcdf files to gempak format for plotting), GEMPAK and GARP are
still hard to beat. Perhaps I just need to spend more time learning IDV.
Grin.
peace,
Frank Marsik
Dept. of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
University of Michigan
