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To the IDV user/developer community, During the last couple of days I have been trying to implement an interface between our local data formats and the IDV for station time series, which was not so easy. I was not able to find a working point or station observation convention for IDV. Finally I succeeded by adopting the MIDAS netCDF format, which does the job via a linked list construction, but not efficiently. I just wanted to encourage the IDV developer team to implement the latest conventions, especially for point and station time series observations ( <https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/wiki/PointObservationConventions> https://cf-pcmdi.llnl.gov/trac/wiki/PointObservationConventions) as soon as possible. Is there a time aimed at for the next IDV release? I think that IDV will fill a gap in our visualization software; so far we had to create scripts or subroutines (Ferret, NCARG, GMT, etc. ) for each individual application. If the visualization need is not something exotic, IDV should be able to speed up the work a lot and help especially the ?non ? programming? meteorologist to get want he needs, without going with his request to a ?programming? colleague. I will have to see, how IDV is getting acceptance among my collegues. Just a suggestion: the interpolation from the station network to a grid with the Barnes method yields rather strange fields in case of not so dense station distributions, if the grid distance is in the range or lower than the mean station distance. Maybe a simple IDW would yield more reasonable 2D fields in such a case. All the best and with kind regards, Helfried Scheifinger ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Helfried Scheifinger Fachabteilung Klima/Section Climate Bereich Kundenservice/Division Customer Service Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik 1190 Wien, Hohe Warte 38 Tel.: +43 (0)1 / 36 0 26 / 2410 Fax: +43 (0)1 / 36 0 26 74 E-Mail: helfried.scheifinger@xxxxxxxxxx Homepage: <http://www.zamg.ac.at/> www.zamg.ac.at -----------------------------------------------------------------
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