<div dir="ltr"><div>Unfortunately, I could not get this to work. My script says it can&#39;t find the variable &#39;cref&#39; 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?<br>
<br></div>Thanks for any help/guidance,<br><br>Sytske<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball<br>Professor of Meteorology</div>
<div>Director, South Alabama Mesonet<br>Dept. of Earth Sciences<br>University of South Alabama<br>Mobile, AL<br>phone (251) 460-7031 </div>
<div>fax       (251) 460-7886<br>email   <a href="mailto:skimball@usouthal.edu" target="_blank">skimball@southalabama.edu</a></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Heath, Nicholas <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nkh09@my.fsu.edu" target="_blank">nkh09@my.fsu.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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Take a look at this site:<br>
<a href="http://gradsaddict.blogspot.com/2013/05/tutorial-plot-radar-data-using-grads.html" target="_blank">http://gradsaddict.blogspot.com/2013/05/tutorial-plot-radar-data-using-grads.html</a><br>
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Good luck!<br>
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-Nick<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 11, 2013 5:32 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org" target="_blank">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gradsusr] NEXRAD radar data in GrADS<br>
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Can anyone tell me (or point me to a resource) how to import NEXRAD radar data, downloaded from NCDC, into GrADS?<br>
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I tried using the NOAA Weather and Climate Toolkit to convert the NEXRAD data to shapefiles, but then I can&#39;t get the colors of the polygons to show up. I found a script written by Jennifer Adams (<a href="ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/scripts/shp_demo3.gs" target="_blank">ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/scripts/shp_demo3.gs</a>)
 that references a radar.ctl file. So there must be a way to do it, but a Google search hasn&#39;t lead to anything useful.<br>
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Any help would be much appreciated.<br>
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Thank you in advance,<br>
Sytske<br>
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<div>Sytske (seets-kah) Kimball<br>
Professor of Meteorology</div>
<div>Director, South Alabama Mesonet<br>
Dept. of Earth Sciences<br>
University of South Alabama<br>
Mobile, AL<br>
phone (251) 460-7031 </div>
<div>fax       (251) 460-7886<br>
email   <a href="mailto:skimball@usouthal.edu" target="_blank">skimball@southalabama.edu</a></div>
<div>web:   <a href="http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/" target="_blank">http://chiliweb.southalabama.edu/</a>
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