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RE: 20040524: RE: 20040505: NIDS display in general



Rob,

47swp and 62ss are not using tabular or alphanumeric sections. They use
a different block ID number (#4) which is not in my documentation.
So, at this point, they are not compatible with the program.

GPNIDS will dump out the text block from the sections of the
NIDS products that specify text. It will plot storm IDS, and feature
locations where the appropriate packet codes in NIDS provide feature
location coordinates for plotting.

In the case of NCR, the tablular data is just a text stream which is
output (according to the OUTPUT variable). While it would be possible to
try to parse out  the location of the text stream by azimuth and range,
it its not part of the product. This product as well as the N1P and NTP
products just provide a block of text.

The meso, tvs, hail, and sti products all provide alphanumeric graphic
codes that give image/graphic locations of where to plot the lines, IDs,
symbols etc. These products will label the storm IDs. I don't parse or
decode the features, just follow the graphic drawing commands as
provided within the NIDS product.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 20:21, Rob Dale wrote:
> Works great! Only thing I couldn't get it to display was 62ss but I see
> that only really adds the storm base to the NCR table. The one thing I
> noticed is that while the graphic programs need the WMO / AWIPS header
> stripped out - this requires it. No biggie.
> 
> Is the NCR plot supposed to overlay the cell ID's or is that down the
> road yet?
> 
>  - Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: address@hidden 
> > [mailto:address@hidden] On Behalf Of Steve Chiswell
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 4:29 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Cc: GEMPAK support
> > Subject: 20040524: RE: 20040505: NIDS display in general
> > 
> > 
> > Gempak users,
> > 
> > In response to requests for the capability of displaying some 
> > of the text and graphic information available in the NIDS 
> > products not included within the radial or raster image 
> > portion of the data block, I have created a program GPNIDS 
> > which is essentially an expanded capability version of GPVAD 
> > which I previously released.