[awips2-users] GEMPAK 7.3.1

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• Subject: [awips2-users] GEMPAK 7.3.1
• From: Michael James <mjames@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 11:31:48 -0700

GEMPAK 7.3.1 is available as source code, 64-bit Linux binaries, and an OS
X binary tarball. The most significant updates in this release are to
GEMPAK's Python scripts which retrieve data from an AWIPS EDEX server.

7.3.1 binary and source code releases are available at

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/

https://github.com/Unidata/gempak/releases


I have packaged both a standard binary and a version built against Python
2.7 for use with the python-awips package (see:
http://python-awips.readthedocs.io). Please consult the updated install
instructions at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/doc/install.html
for more information.


How to retrieve AWIPS data with GEMPAK?
If you have installed gempak-python and python-awips, or built GEMPAK from
source against python 2.7:

   - Set/change the EDEX server defined in Gemenviron.profile/Gemenviron
   (default is edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu)
   - Ensure that libpython2.7.so* is found (e.g. "ldd $OS_BIN/gdinfo")
   - Entries in datatype.tbl are used to define AWIPS grid names

grep ^A2 $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl
A2METAR      AWIPSDB                   metar.xml
A2SYNOP      AWIPSDB                   synop.xml
A2UAIR       AWIPSDB                   uair.xml
A2GFS        AWIPSDB                   gfs.xml
A2GFS20      AWIPSDB                   gfs20.xml
A2GFS80      AWIPSDB                   gfs80.xml
A2RAP        AWIPSDB                   rap.xml
A2NAM        AWIPSDB                   nam.xml
A2NamDNG     AWIPSDB                   namdng.xml
A2NAVGEM     AWIPSDB                   navgem.xml
A2DGEX       AWIPSDB                   dgex.xml
A2HRRR       AWIPSDB                   hrrr.xml
A2CMC        AWIPSDB                   cmc.xml
A2ECMWF      AWIPSDB                   ecmwf.xml
A2MRMS       AWIPSDB                   mrms.xml
A2RTMA       AWIPSDB                   rtma.xml
A2URMA       AWIPSDB                   urma.xml


   - These xml files (e.g. gfs20.xml) are found in $GEMTBL/data-access/ and
   each defines the AWIPS/EDEX grid name used (e.g. dbkey="GFS20")
   - An example in GDINFO:

 GDFILE   = A2GFS20
 LSTALL   = YES
 OUTPUT   = t
 GDATTIM  = last
 GLEVEL   = 500
 GVCORD   = pres
 GFUNC    = all




Michael James
Unidata Program Center
Boulder, CO