[gradsusr] NEXRAD radar data in GrADS

[Jeff Duda]

Did you try 'q file'?


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Sytske Kimball
<skimball at southalabama.edu>wrote:

> Unfortunately, I could not get this to work. My script says it can't find
> the variable 'cref' used in the example on the webpage. But since there is
> no descriptor file when using the sdfopen command, how do I know what
> variable name is appropriate?
>
> Thanks for any help/guidance,
>
> 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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-- 
Jeff Duda
Graduate research assistant
University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
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