IRAS is a java app and requires that the files be unzipped. One
needs to gererate their own map backgraounds (softwarea and geodata
provieded) but it is a decent first look app.
Don can correct me, but I beleive since it is java, it was used as a
guide in development for the IDV.
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/radar/iras.html
mjl
On Wed, 5 May 2004, Michael W Dross wrote:
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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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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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> Just as aside, I know a few of us have inquired over the years
> about Unidata apps displaying the Storm Attribute table
> that is attached to the Composite Reflectivity Product.
>
> I realize that this certainly has to have a lower priority,
> but are there any plans for either GEMPAK, McIDAS or IDV
> to be able to display the table and plot the info over
> imagery?
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> Thanks,
> Robert Mullenax
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