20070816: Unidata McIDAS-X v2007 available for download

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• Subject: 20070816: Unidata McIDAS-X v2007 available for download
• From: Unidata Support <support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 11:12:06 -0600

Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD Users:

Unidata McIDAS-X Version 2007 is now available for download.

Unidata McIDAS-X v2007 is a combination of SSEC McIDAS-X v2007 and XCD
v2007 including additional bugfixes developed by the UPC, and various
applications and enhancements from the UPC, the Australian Bureau of
Meteorology, CSU/CIRA, and others.

Some v2007 Highlights:

  * A beta version of the command ADT was added to McIDAS-X. ADT
    Estimates tropical cyclone intensity by using the Advanced Dvorak
    Technique (ADT) algorithm with infrared satellite imagery.

  * A new keyword, ENSEMBLE= was added to the GRDCOPY, GRDDISP,
    GRDIMG, GRDINFO, and GRDLIST commands to select ensemble grids by
    specifying their ensemble numbers.

  * Added the ability to specify positive MAG= keyword values when
    copying data from a GOES archive server.

  * IMGREMAP was updated to work correctly if the destination image
    has LALO navigation.

  * WWDISP and WWLIST were modified to accommodate Areal Flood
    Warnings send in NOAAPORT FLS (Flood Statement) products.

  * The GRIB ADDE server was updated to allow creation of datasets
    containing GRIB2 files from NOAAPORT and to display/manipulate the
    data using the GRD* commands.

  * Unidata McIDAS now supports the direct access/use of the
    PNG-compressed imagery available in the IDD UNIWISC (PNG-compressed
    AREA format) and FNEXRAD (PNG-compressed GINI and AREA formats)
    datasetreams. Users no longer need to run LDM-McIDAS decoders
    (pnga2area for PNG-compressed AREA images; pngg2gini for
    PNG-compressed GINI images) to uncompress the images before use in
    McIDAS. Sites that use these images in applications that do not
    support the PNG-compressed formats still need to uncompress the
    images.

  * Support of GNU gfortran was added for 32- and 64-bit Linux
    workstations. NOTE: gfortran use has only been tested on Linux
    workstations.

  * The Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD configuration script, mcxconfig, was
    significantly enhanced. mcxconfig now creates ADDE server mapping
    table actions (LSSERVE.BAT), client routing table actions
    (LOCDATA.BAT), needed file REDIRECTions (LOCAL.NAM), LDM server
    configuration file additions (ldmd.conf_mcidas), LDM pattern-action
    files (pqact.conf_mcidas[AB]), and user 'ldm' crontab entries
    (crontab.ldm_mcidas) that can be used to setup McIDAS for a variety
    of classes of use especially for sites that use the LDM to ingest
    data.

  * LDM-McIDAS decoders for NOAA wind profiler (proftomd), NLDN
    lightning (nldn2md), and PNG-compressed imagery in AREA and GINI
    (pnga2area and pngg2gini, respectively) formats will be
    incorporated into a v2007 enhancement addendum early this fall.

Some useful reading:

v2007 Release Announcement
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/release.html

ABCs of Upgrading from a Previous Distribution
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/upgrade_notes.html

Installing McIDAS-X on Unix or Mac OS X Workstations
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/mcidas/current/users_guide/InstallingMcIDAS-XonUnixorMacOSXWorkstations.html

Please send questions/comments about the v2007 distribution to:

Unidata McIDAS Support <support-mcidas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.

Cheers,

Tom Yoksas
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