Hi Rod, re: > Is there a way you can help me out on this on Thursday on SKYPE? Did you not get/see the email I sent you last Friday? I have included it at the bottom of this reply just in case. re: > In > addition I have a question with the ASCII files produced from the effective > radius. I understand the values are from 0 to 255 but is that in K or C? The values are brightness. To convert GOES GVAR IR brighness to temperature, one has to use a two slope conversion: TEMP BRIT ----- ------ 163 255 241.9999 177 242 176 330 0 re: > Is there a way I can find out? The UNIT= keyword for AXFORM can be used to specify the desired unit of the output. Review the online help for AXFORM for more information: HELP AXFORM Here is the note I sent last Friday: > Hi Rod, > > re: > > That's ok! You helped me out on the ASCII files which is way more important > > at this moment. I will wait until Thursday for examples because I am > > confused with some parts like the RANGE? > > I finally got a few minutes to focus on your efforts... > > re: > > At least I can show the ASCII files but I am curious to see how IMGOLAY or > > FRMOLAY works because I feel that those commands can overlay images. > > After thinking about what you are trying to do recreate a display originally > created by Dan Lindsey), I decided that IMGOLAY/FRMOLAY are not the correct > things to use since the display created using either of them will not look > like Dan's display. Instead, what is needed is to create a new image (AREA > file) that contains both the Effective Radius information and the VISible > image data. This is accomplished using the IMGFILT command. > > re: > > Otherwise there is really no point in using that legend table in my > > opinion. If nothing can be overlayed. > > The GRAYOVER bar and labeling do make sense for a merged image. > > re: > > At any rate we can talk more about this on Thursday? > > Well, it is now Friday, so Thursday is out :-) But, I created a new > McIDAS BATCH file, EFFRAD2.BAT, that does everything I think that you > want. Please test it out and see what you think. > > NB: > > - I copied over my version of CLW4.ET to your $MCDATA directory. I > think that this overwrote your file, so you may need to tweak the > new CLW4.ET enhancement. > > - I have attached my version of EFFRAD2.BAT (named EFFRAD.BAT) to this email > so that anyone else reading the exchange will be able to see the techniques > used in the BATCH file. You do _not_ need to extract this attachment since > I already copied it to your $MCDATA directory AND modified that copy to use > the datasets that you use (e.g., G13/ERAD27APR11, LOC/AREAS, etc.). > > Cheers, > > Tom Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JKQ-991036 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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