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Help Desk replied: These pages in the McV User's Guide have general information about it: m m m m You may note that the Gridded Data chooser (in the Data Sources tab) doesn't have a Soundings option like the Point Observations chooser does. But that's ok. If you use the Gridded Data chooser and sele...

This question was recently received by the McIDAS Help Desk:

How do you make a thermodynamic diagram of NWP (numerical weather prediction) grid data in GRIB2 format? I'm most interested in displaying it in a Skew-T diagram.

The image filters are not quite ready and still have to go through testing. They have to be evaluated to make sure they have the capabilities of IMGFILT. I'll write up an inquiry to make sure that the histogram option be included with the REPLACE option.

Rick

Thanks William,

Unfortunately the user did not have McIDAS-X, but using that exact solution, we were able to help him out. Poking word 65 is the correct solution.

Rick

Thanks Kris, I was able to find an easier example and wrote up the following inquiry: m 1) Start a 2-panel display tab 2) Highlight panel 1 and via HYDRA load a MODIS channel 3) Create a local ADDE dataset using the the same hdf from step 2 4) Highlight panel 2 and via Satellite Imagery Chooser, Cre...

Thanks Tom,

I wrote up the following inquiry:

http://mcidas.ssec.wisc.edu/inquiry-v/?inquiry=670

Rick

Thanks Kris,

We have the file and I wrote up an inquiry requesting the enhancement:
http://mcidas.ssec.wisc.edu/inquiry-v/?inquiry=669

Rick

Hi Brian, Thanks for the report. Yes, this is a known issue in low-level VisAD/IDV, and thus is part of McIDAS-V. According to the thread at m, what happens is that when you zoom in too far, you zoom through the back clipping plane. And as also noted there, when you get to the point where the image ...

Why or why not? Please leave comments below.

Hi William, Try the following: 1) Create a formula (from the tools menu) I called my formula 'flip' formula should be: abs(x-255) 2) Load the 3 bands 3) Choose formulas 4) Choose imagery 5) Choose Three Color RGB 6) You'll get a pop-up window. For Red - choose .65 channel, for Green choose 3.9. for ...