<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>Bimal,<br></div>You won't use the Weather and Climate Toolkit to directly obtain radar data. The software merely gives you a way to display and analyze it (as well as convert radar data to other data formats). To obtain the actual data, go to the radar page of the National Climatic Data Center's website at this link: <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/radar-data">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/radar-data</a>. Follow the links to obtain radar data, which will lead you to this site: <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/</a>. You can choose whatever means to get you the data you are looking for. You may find it easier (or harder) to obtain data directly from the Amazon Web Services cloud site, which allows you to download without making a data request first: <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/noaa-big-data/nexrad/">https://aws.amazon.com/noaa-big-data/nexrad/</a>.<br><br></div>Once you have obtained the data, you can store them locally on your machine, or just use a HAS order number (which you will get if you submit a request for the data using the HAS service: <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/has/HAS.FileAppRouter?datasetname=7000&subqueryby=STATION&applname=&outdest=FILE">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/has/HAS.FileAppRouter?datasetname=7000&subqueryby=STATION&applname=&outdest=FILE</a>). If you use a HAS order number, you don't have to manually download the data. The WCT software will pull the data in for you once you enter the order number in the data dialog box.<br><br></div>Hopefully this gets you started. Let me know if you have other questions.<br><br></div>Jeff Duda<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Bimal Gyawali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bml.gya@gmail.com" target="_blank">bml.gya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello Jeff,<div>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?</div><div>Thank you.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Bimal Gyawali</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Stage IV data are in GRIB format. You can order them here: <a href="http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=21.093" target="_blank">http://data.eol.ucar.edu/codiac/dss/id=21.093</a><br><br></div>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.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Jeff<br></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Thomas Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ter@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">ter@hawaii.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Bimal,</div><div><br></div>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). <div><br></div><div>-Tom</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Bimal Gyawali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bml.gya@gmail.com" target="_blank">bml.gya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jeff,<div>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.</div><div>Thanks,</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Bimal Gyawali</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br>
Graduate Research Assistant<br>
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Natural Resources Centre<br>
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi<br>
Corpus Christi, TX 78412<br>
Tel: <a href="tel:435-881-3603" value="+14358813603" target="_blank">435-881-3603</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Bimal,<br></div>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.<br><br></div>Jeff Duda<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div><div><div>On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Bimal Gyawali <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bml.gya@gmail.com" target="_blank">bml.gya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>Thank you.<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p><b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial">Bimal Gyawali</span></i></b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(46,117,182);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial"><br>
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Natural Resources Centre<br>
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi<br>
Corpus Christi, TX 78412<br>
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