[gradsusr] Surface Metar Data

[Jeff Duda]

James,
You can download the actual data file by clicking on the link for the file
you want, then either clicking the link under "Access" on the following
page or by using a Linux command to obtain the data. I used wget to obtain
an example file. I have never personally worked with these specific data,
although I have worked with METAR and mesonet obs obtained from MADIS (also
in netcdf format). I'm sure you could probably write a control file to
display the station data directly. You'd want to look in the Grads
documentation for writing a control file for station data.

Jeff Duda

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:29 PM, James Spinks <jspin881 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to work with this Surface Metar data from the Thredds
> data server (
> http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/nws/metar/ncdecoded/files/catalog.html),
> which is in netcdf format.
>
> Now, I have been able to display the data from GDS (
> http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/stn/metar/2015), but I want to be able
> to physically download the data and display it because I want to do more
> advance scripting that will require too much bandwidth across GDS. Can you
> download the physical file from GDS?
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Has anyone ever worked with the surface metar data from Thredds?
> 1) Is there a control file to open and display the surface metar data in
> GrADS?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> P.S. if my questions or explanation are not clear I will be happy to
> clarify myself.
>
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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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