[gradsusr] NEXRAD radar data in GrADS

[Sytske Kimball]

That looks promising!! Will try first thing tomorrow.

Thank you and have a great evening,
Sytske



Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball
Professor of Meteorology
Director, South Alabama Mesonet
Dept. of Earth Sciences
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
phone (251) 460-7031
fax       (251) 460-7886
email   skimball at southalabama.edu <skimball at usouthal.edu>
web:   http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/



On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Heath, Nicholas <nkh09 at my.fsu.edu> wrote:

>  Hi,
>
> Take a look at this site:
>
> http://gradsaddict.blogspot.com/2013/05/tutorial-plot-radar-data-using-grads.html
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Nick
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org [gradsusr-bounces at gradsusr.org] on
> behalf of Sytske Kimball [skimball at southalabama.edu]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:32 PM
> *To:* gradsusr at gradsusr.org
> *Subject:* [gradsusr] NEXRAD radar data in GrADS
>
>    Fellow grads users,
>
>  Can anyone tell me (or point me to a resource) how to import NEXRAD radar
> data, downloaded from NCDC, into GrADS?
>
> I tried using the NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit to convert the NEXRAD
> data to shapefiles, but then I can't get the colors of the polygons to show
> up. I found a script written by Jennifer Adams (
> ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/scripts/shp_demo3.gs) that references a
> radar.ctl file. So there must be a way to do it, but a Google search hasn't
> lead to anything useful.
>
>  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
>  Thank you in advance,
> Sytske
>
>
>   Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball
> Professor of Meteorology
> Director, South Alabama Mesonet
> Dept. of Earth Sciences
> University of South Alabama
> Mobile, AL
> phone (251) 460-7031
> fax       (251) 460-7886
> email   skimball at southalabama.edu <skimball at usouthal.edu>
> web:   http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/
>
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