Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 08:41:04 -0500
From: "Peter Manousos" <Peter.Manousos@noaa.gov>
To: allsoos@comet.ucar.edu
Subject: AWIPS Radar to .gif

  Hi...

Many of you are asking what was suggested and what worked.  Option 1 
worked for me at HPC, I have yet to investigate options 2, 3, and 4.

1. AWIPS Radar images are in a native format that GEMPAK (and NAWIPS)
    can ingest directly (courtesy Paul Jendrowski)

2. Use a Unidata viewer (courtesy Tom Hultquist)
    "Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) should do it. You can find it
    at http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/IDV/index.html
    I've used it some to view Archive III data, and it says it will view
    netCDF. It is in Java and will install on Windows (and Linux I
    believe)."

3. Configure your WES as if at WFO GUA (courtesy Pat Welsh)
    "The WES works fine...should have a Guam
    localization @ COMET STRC page. You can use either screen capture for
    .PNG (GIF) or the print window to save in postscript."

4. Visit the following web site for a utility to convert NetCDF to gif
    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/software.html
    (courtesy Jeff Cupo)

Pete