20010524: Iowa RWIS

Brandon,

We have no trouble with multiple departments on campus using our software.

You may want to consult with Bill Gallus on your campus since he is 
probably familiar with many aspects of your questions below:

>**********************************************
>*  Bill Gallus                               *
>*  Associate Prof. of Meteorology            *
>*  Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sci.  *
>*  3025 Agronomy Hall                        *
>*  Iowa State University                     *
>*  Ames, IA 50011                            *
>*  (phone) 515-294-2270                      *
>*  (fax)   515-294-2619                      *
>**********************************************

Your university can receive the LDM NEXRAD feed data for any/all of
the radar data on NOAAPORT. That would include adding the 2 additional
sites mentioned below. In general, our goal for the IDD is to have
departments within a university coordinate feeds so that duplicate data sets are
not crossing the campus network unnecessarily.

GEMPAK cannot reproject single site NEXRAD products as images. Rather, any data
can be mapped to the image projection. 

You can create GEMPAK gridded data sets from NEXRAD images and the gridded data
can be projected into any map projection and/or overlayed with other data sets. 
See the gdradr examples at:
http://motherlode.ucar.edu/unidata/images/nids/gdradr.html

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: Brandon Allen Storm <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200105241905.f4OJ5up23702

>For whom it may concern,
>
>The Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE) and the Iowa 
>Department of Transportation up keep a web site, weatherview 
>http://www.weatherview.dot.ia.us/ , that displays all of the Roadway Weather 
>Information Sensor (RWIS) and AWOS sensors in Iowa.  We are interested in 
>overlaying radar over the current map of Iowa with the sensors on it.  
>
>The Meteorology department at Iowa State University receives NEXRAD data, and 
>is willing to share it with us.  However, we need to no if we need to get a 
>license for gempack and unit data.  
>
>We may also need to receive more radar sites than Iowa State currently 
>receives.  They receive the Des Moines and Omaha sites, we would be interested
>  
>in also receiving the Davenport and Sioux Falls radars.  We need to know that 
>if this is possible.
>
>We also need to know if it is possible to change the projection to match are 
>current map exactly, and to zoom into parts of Iowa, or shut off the radar.
>
>Any help or ideas you can give us is welcome.  
>
>Brandon Storm
>address@hidden
>Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE)
>Iowa State University
>Junior
>Meteorology
>
>