[gradsusr] How to use NEXRAD hourly precipitation data?

[Bimal Gyawali]

Hello Jeff,
Thank you for your help. I could not figure out how to download the data
using weather toolkit. I installed the toolkit but dont know how to use it
to download data. can you please tell me the steps if you have previous
experiences?
Thank you.

*Bimal Gyawali*





* Graduate Research Assistant Department of Physical and Environment
Science Natural Resources Center Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus
Christi, TX 78412 Tel: 435-881-3603*

On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Stage IV data are in GRIB format. You can order them here:
> http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=21.093
>
> By NEXRAD III, do you mean Level-3 data? If so, you can use the Weather
> and Climate Toolkit for free from NCDC to process the data files into
> netCDF format. Grads can handle both GRIB and netCDF data.
>
> Jeff
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Robinson <ter at hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
>> Bimal,
>>
>> I used Level II NEXRAD data and converted it to netcdf when I was trying
>> to get radar data into GrADS.  I don't think you can convert Level III data
>> (at least not as easily/straightforward as you would be able to with Level
>> II data).
>>
>> -Tom
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Bimal Gyawali <bml.gya at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>> Thanks for your response. I am supposed to work on NEXRAD III
>>> precipitation data. If stage IV has high quality I would like to use that.
>>> Both of them are on same format? Can I open them using GrADS? if you have
>>> used before please let me know how can I open using grads.
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> *Bimal Gyawali*
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> * Graduate Research Assistant Department of Physical and Environment
>>> Science Natural Resources Centre Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus
>>> Christi, TX 78412 Tel: 435-881-3603 <435-881-3603>*
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bimal,
>>>> I'm not sure to which specific dataset you are referring, but if you
>>>> want high quality precipitation observations, I would suggest using Stage
>>>> IV data.
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Duda
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Bimal Gyawali <bml.gya at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I would like to use NCDC NEXRAD hourly precipitation data. But I dont
>>>>> know if i can use this data in grads. Please help me if anyone have used
>>>>> this data before using grads. Also I would be thankful if anyone can tell
>>>>> how can convert it in grads format.
>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Bimal Gyawali*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> * Graduate Research Assistant Department of Physical and Environment
>>>>> Science Natural Resources Centre Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Corpus
>>>>> Christi, TX 78412 Tel: 435-881-3603 <435-881-3603>*
>>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> Post-doctoral research associate
>>>> University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology
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