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Ken -- It is my understanding that we (SSEC) will be exploring the feasibility of doing this, but since the output from the ODT is apparently a list of a few numbers, it is not altogether clear that it could not be more easily accomplished with a little Java and/or Python (Jython) and the visad and netcdf-java libraries. We'll see. I applaud your use of NetCDF with CF conventions!! Good show! It is vital for our community to start encouraging the use of this combination so that tool developers (and scientists) can ultimately spend less time "dealing" with file formats, etc. Thank you!! tom On 12/12/06, Ken Knapp <Ken.Knapp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have recently developed a hurricane database of satellite observations (http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/b1utc/b1utc.html). These have been calibrated for homogeneity in time and are stored in netCDF using the CF convention. However, most analysts want the data in a form which McIDAS can read because from there, they can produce Objective Dvorak Technique (ODT) estimates of tropical cyclone intensity. Does anyone plan to develop an ODT technique for IDV? Does anyone have any suggestions aside from completely re-formatting the data to McIDAS? Thanks- -Ken [Note: Evidently, McIDAS can read netCDF files, but assumes they are grids and the McIDAS AODT algorithm doesn't work on grids, but on images. Hence, completely reformatting the data seems to be the only option] [Also: This question is also being posed to the MUG (McIDAS Users Group)] -- Ken Knapp, Ph.D. Ken.Knapp@xxxxxxxx Remote Sensing and Applications Division National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Ave Asheville, NC 28801-5001 828-271-4339 (voice) 828-271-4328 (fax)
-- Tom Whittaker University of Wisconsin-Madison Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC) Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) 1225 W. Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 USA ph: +1 608 262 2759
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