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Hello, The below message from NSF Unidata Support on 04/02/2024 mentions that the SSEC Unidata server (adde.ssec.wisc.edu) is being permanently decommissioned on April 26, 2024. Users of this server for accessing satellite, radar, and point data in McIDAS-V are encouraged to use the adde.ucar.edu se...

Hello, I'm assuming you are loading the data through the General>Files/Directories chooser. By default, this loads the data as a single-time gridded data source. There's a data type "Aggregate Grids by Time" that would allow you to select multiple files, click Add Source, and then be able ...

Hello, Dependent on your operating system, there are a couple ways you can work with the netCDF (*.nc) file in McIDAS-V: If you are on Linux or macOS, you can create a local dataset through the ADDE Data Manager (Tools>Manage ADDE Datasets) with the GOES ABI format. You can then access this local da...

Hello, The image you shared is the McIDAS-V directory. This directory doesn't contain any code, but things like user preferences, formulas, color enhancements, etc. that you would want retained as you update McIDAS-V versions. The directory where McIDAS-V was installed to (called McIDAS-V-System by ...

Hello, Thanks for your question about animation capturing speed. The way that McIDAS-V captures animations is by doing a screen shot of each frame before moving to the next. This process takes a bit of time and does not use the dwell rates specified in the Time Animation Widget. I wrote up Inquiry 3...

Hello, I think you're on the right track by using the Drawing Controls. Once you add a drawing control layer to your display, in the Layer Controls you should see a "create a symbol" button (see the red square in the image below): draw1.png Once you select this shape, you should be able to...

Hi Raul, Great! I'm glad that disabling this option made your data visible. If you like clipping of the wireframe box on the horizontal scale, but still want all of your vertical levels visible, you could increase the height of your wireframe box. This can be done with the "set vertical range&q...

Hello, I tried some GFS global 0.25 degree data in core 1.8 and I was able to plot trajectories and other plan view displays above 150 hPa. One thing I noticed is that, by default, the wireframe box goes up to 16km vertically. This is generally somewhere between 150 and 100 hPa, so any level above 1...

Hello,

Thanks for reporting this and for all of the detailed information. I wrote up inquiry 3073 for us to investigate this issue. I will let you know when any development is done to get this data supported in McIDAS-V.

Thanks again,
Bob Carp
McIDAS User Services

Thanks for following up, Michael. I'm glad you're able to use McIDAS-V to display and work with your data. I will let you know when the 1.9 stable release is available for download.

Bob