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Recent Releases of GEMPAK

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.19.0.1 Release

Only change is a table update to support GOES 19 #163

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Published by akrherz 18 days ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.19.0 Release

No changes beyond merging NCEP NAWIPS 7.19.0

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Published by akrherz 5 months ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.18.0 Release

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.18.0, changes are mostly table
and NWS Zone updates.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz 11 months ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.17.0 Release

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.17.0, changes are mostly table
and NWS Zone updates.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz over 1 year ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.16.1 Release

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.16.1, whose CHANGELOG includes:

  • Bug fix for upper air decoder (dcuair) where 21212 group is processed incorrectly.
  • Bug fix for “white spots/specks” graphic issue on accumulated QPF.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz almost 2 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.16.0 Release

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.16.0, whose CHANGELOG includes:

  • NWS zones updated to March 2023
  • Small nmap2 fixes
  • Volcanic Ash Advisory updates

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz almost 2 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK Release 7.15.2

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.15.2, whose CHANGELOG includes:

  • fix to gempak/source/bridge/ru/ruwhgt.f

This release also includes the following GEMPAK Community changes:

  • Some fixes and cleanups to CI/build infrastructure.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz about 2 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK Release 7.15.1

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.15.1, whose CHANGELOG includes:

  • Build fixes on RHEL 8.
  • GOES18 table additions.

This release also includes the following GEMPAK Community changes:

  • Continued table cleanups.
  • Build cleanups and fixes.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz over 2 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.15.0 Release

This release merges upstream NCEP NAWIPS 7.15.0, whose CHANGELOG includes:

  • Bug fixes and other issue resolutions.
  • Cumulative revisions to NAWIPS data tables to support maps/bounds,
    surface stations, tropical, and other routine periodic updates.
  • Integration of compiler, and certain changes required to support the
    WCOSS supercomputer and RHEL 8 Operating System transition projects.
  • Updates to Volcanic Ash Advisory user interface to support the NESDIS
    Satellite Analysis Branch.

This release also includes the following GEMPAK Community changes:

  • More dynamic setting of NAWIPS environment variable on bash (#85).
  • Update MRMS Grib Tables to v12.1 (#89).
  • Continued cleanup of bad previous merges that overwrote Unidata
    local table modifications.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz almost 3 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata Community GEMPAK 7.14.0.1 Release

This release signifies the desire for the community to make releases at a faster
cadence than verbatim tracking NCEP NAWIPS releases (#74). We will continue
to attempt to merge any upstream NCEP NAWIPS releases, but will attempt to add
additional functionality here.

Bug Fixes

  • The install4j Java vulnerability is "addressed" by simply removing the offending
    jar file content, which is generally unused by the Unidata Community (#69).
  • The release of 7.14.0 has a number of issues with included GEMPAK tables
    with Unidata modifications over-written by the NCEP NAWIPS releases (#70). There
    may still need to be some work done in this area, but things are much closer now
    to back to normal.
  • @sgdecker kindly provided fixes for a couple of edge cases (#44, #46).

Improvements

  • Developer experience improvements were made with some cleanups to the git
    repository (#78) and implementation of Github Actions for CI (#65, #57).
  • GEMPAK now supports the newly added "Super-Res" NEXRAD Level III products (#73).

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by akrherz about 3 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata GEMPAK 7.14.0 Release

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Published by akrherz over 3 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.5.1

Release Notes

  • Supports GOES-16/17 ABI imagery in NetCDF 4 format
  • Fixed build of program dctama

GEMPAK Support for GOES ABI NetCDF

GOES16 and GOES17 ABI products are distributed in NetCDF4 formatted files, and GEMPAK as of release 7.5.1 can now read and display these products in their native formats (it is no longer needed to convert netCDF to McIDAS area format to display in GEMPAK).

For Full Disk and CONUS sectors, GOES16 and GOES17 ABI products are sent across the Satellite Broadcast Network as tiles, each contributing to a "mosaic" of a full sector scan. The Unidata Program Center has provided an alternate data feed in which all tiles are "stitched" together (thanks to the program ldm-alchemy).

ldmd.conf

To request these stitched images, add the following request line to your ldmd.conf:

REQUEST NIMAGE "GOES" idd.unidata.ucar.edu

pqact.conf

The following pattern action

NIMAGE     ^/data/ldm/pub/native/satellite/GOES/(.*)/([^/]*)/([^/]*)/([0-9]{8})/GOES(16|17)_([^/]*)_([0-9]{8})_([0-9]{4})(..)_([^/]*).nc4
        FILE    -close  data/gempak/images/sat/\1/\2/\3/\3_\7_\8

will create files such as :

$SAT/GOES16/CONUS/Channel02/Channel02_20181227_1812
$SAT/GOES16/CONUS/Channel08/Channel08_20181227_1812
$SAT/GOES16/CONUS/Channel13/Channel13_20181227_1942

for each of the 16 ABI channels (here the environmental variable SAT = /data/ldm/gempak/images/sat/) and each available sector (e.g. CONUS above).

NMAP2 Display

The above pqact.conf entry will write images to directories in $SAT, which are then selectable in NMAP2 > New Data Source > Image

GOES16 Full Disk

GOES16 CONUS

GOES16 PRREGI

GOES16 Mesoscale-1

GOES16 Mesoscale-2

GOES17 Full Disk*

  • as seen above there is still a map projection error for GOES17 Full Disk images.

GOES17 CONUS

GOES17 AKREGI

GOES17 HIREGI

GOES17 Mesoscale-1

GOES17 Mesoscale-2

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Published by mjames-upc about 6 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.4.5

This is a minor update release with the following changes:

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Published by mjames-upc over 6 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.4.3

Release Notes

  • Full support for GOES ABI fixed grid projection McIDAS AREA format (UNIWISC)
  • New AWIPS lutfils for GOES 16 IR and WV channels (https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/mjames/gempak/goes16/)
  • Corrected a bug in 7.4.2 snow squall warnings which caused dcwarn to generate false FFW warnings
  • Updated zlib 1.2.6 -> 1.2.8
  • Updated HDF5 1.8.0 -> 1.8.15
  • Updated netCDF 4.1.3 -> 4.3.3.1
  • CloudGEMPAK updated to GEMPAK 7.4.3

GOES-16 LDM Pattern Actions for GEMPAK

# ---------------- GOES-16 Image Sectors ----------------
#
# CONUS
UNIWISC ^pnga2area Q. CNC(..) (.*) (.*)_IMG (.*)um (.*) (........) (....)
        FILE    -close  data/gempak/images/sat/\3/CONUS/Ch\1-\4/\4_\6_\7
# Full Disk
UNIWISC ^pnga2area Q. FDC(..) (.*) (.*)_IMG (.*)um (.*) (........) (....)
        FILE    -close  data/gempak/images/sat/\3/FullDisk/Ch\1-\4/\4_\6_\7
# Meso1
UNIWISC ^pnga2area Q. M1C(..) (.*) (.*)_IMG (.*)um (.*) (........) (....)
        FILE    -close  data/gempak/images/sat/\3/Mesoscale1/Ch\1-\4/\4_\6_\7
# Meso2
UNIWISC ^pnga2area Q. M2C(..) (.*) (.*)_IMG (.*)um (.*) (........) (....)
        FILE    -close  data/gempak/images/sat/\3/Mesoscale2/Ch\1-\4/\4_\6_\7

GOES-16 CONUS

GOES-16 Full Disk

GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc over 6 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.4.2

  • New GOES fixed grid projection McIDAS navigation for ABI imagery.
  • New GOES ABI lookup tables (colormaps).
  • gdpvsf added back to release after fix for max number of grids to avoid memory reallocation error.
  • Added polygon-based Snow Squall Warnings Product (nwx, nmap2, gpmap)
  • Various other table and map updates from NCEP NAWIPS 7.4.2.

Note that GOES-16 imagery is NOT LIVE yet on the UNIWISC feed (as of April 10, 2018). There will be a separate announcement about the distribution of GOES-16 products in AREA file format.

Linux Binaries

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc about 7 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.4.1

Release Notes:

  • Grib2 table updates for moisture, momentum, mass, radiation, hydrology, cloud/aerosol, more.
  • Removed repetitive dcmetr log messages.
  • Pattern actions in ldm/etc/templates/pqact.gempak_decoders_grid for various NamDNG grid and the National Blend of Models.
  • Alias/mod_res updates, increased max grids in file for gfs, nam, National Blend, SST, URMA, others.
  • Bug fix for AWIPS grid retrieval in scripts/python/GridDataRetriever.py

Linux Binaries

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc over 7 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.4.0

Release Notes:

  • Increased nex2img maximum GINI size
  • Maps and bounds file operational updates from NAWIPS 7.4.0
  • Grib table and pqact updates for 2.5km GFSMOS
  • Fixed G-AIRMET issues when more than 20 points are drawn below the centroid of a smear or snapshot polygon
  • Bug fix in ensemble diagnostic function ENS_CVAL
  • Added new GEMPAK grid diagnostic function: neighborhood functions, developed by SPC
  • Updated HYSPLIT restore files for parameter name changes
  • Fixed nmap2 and gdplot2 bug where program was unable to display global wrapped CED grids for subareas including poles
  • Fixed prob2cat bug that occurs while composing convective outlook, and bug where lines are drawn outside international boundaries
  • Fixed dccsig when handling isolated or lines of thunderstorms
  • Linux binaries built with Docker containers on Travis CI

Linux Binaries

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc over 7 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.3.2

  • gdradr support for dual-pol products.
  • dcgrib(1) support for NOAAport NAM212.
  • g2vcrdwmo6.tbl, g2varswmo0.tbl symlink.
  • gdplot fix for missing titles.

64-bit RPM for CentOS/RedHat
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/latest/gempak-7.3.2-1.x86_64.rpm

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Published by mjames-upc almost 8 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK 7.3.1

7.3.1 binary releases are available from Unidata at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/gempak/

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc over 8 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK v7.3.0

  • Added GFS20 (GFS215) to tables and LDM file pqact.gempak_decoders_grid

  • Added a fix for dcwarn, dcwatch, and other decoders which would write empty files when build with gfortran 4.6+

  • A new parameter G2CONV has been added to GDGRIB2 to allow bulk processing of the GEMPAK parameters. A table that contains multiple entries of input parameters to convert to a grib2 file can be configured for processing. A typical entry in the configuration table would look like:

    GDFILE=$MODEL/gfs/gfs_0p25_2015113000f000
    GBFILE=gfs_20151193000f000.grib2
    GFUNC=tmpk
    GDATTIM=f00
    GLEVEL=500
    GVCORD=pres
    PROJ=ced
    GRDAREA=90;0;-90;-359.75
    KXKY=1440;721
    CPYFIL=
    G2TBLS=
    G2IS=0;2
    G2IDS=7;0;2;;0;0;0
    G2PDT=0|2;10;;;110;;;;;100;0;27500;255;0;0
    GRDRT=|4
    WHOHDR=

    Where the input parameters are defined in GEMPAK document, $GEMPAK/help/hlx.

  • Updated volcano table to version 4.4.0. The version can be accessed from http://volcano.si.edu/projects/vaac-data/.

  • Fixed problems in prob2cat that created erroneous displays of the categorical graphics for convective output.

  • Modified DCXMOS so that it is no longer use the climatology data provided by GEMPAK baseline. The data is over 15 years old and has never been updated. The GFS MOS reports contain an updated climatology column of data that is sufficient for the WPC forecasters. Updated the GFS MOS station table based on locations in an MDL table.

  • Baselined three new scripts, usall, islands and water, under $GEMPAK/utilities/tca2xml, which are run by users from command line to produce the TCA configuration files for CAVE. The output of each script should be redirected to the corresponding xml file names: CoastBreakpoints.xml, IslandBreakpoints.xml, WaterBreakpoints.xml.

    usall tcabkptlz.tbl > CoastBreakpoints.xml
    islands tcabkptlz.tbl > IslandBreakpoints.xml
    water tcabkptlz.tbl > WaterBreakpoints.xml

    The resulting config files will be copied to PGEN localization folder, gov.noaa.nws.ncep.ui.pgen/localization/ncep/pgen/

  • Updated warning decoder to handle the flash flood scenario that appears more than five sections in a flash flood warning file.

  • Fixed NAGRIB2 analysis grid, e.g., RTMA, GDATTIM to be set in a format of YYMMDD/HHHH. Before this fix, if grib(1) is converted to grib2 and then run nagrib2, GDATTIM would be incorrectly set as YYMMDD/HHHHF000.

  • Updated lightning decoder (ltgdecode) to handle the two new encrypted lightning data feeds from Vaisala and Earth Network Inc (ENI) distributed through the SFUS41 header on NOAAPORT, starting from 1630Z Nov 12, 2015 (see TIN 15-47 from http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/notification/tin15-vaisala_lightning.htm). Lightning data are written to the files in the same manner so displays are seamless.

  • Fixed negative grid resolution (dx) when running GDGRIB2 in converting GEMPAK grid to grib2. It happened in two scenarios: (1) rlon1 > 0 and rlon2 = 0.0, i.e., eastern hemisphere (2) rlon1 < 0. && rlon2 < 0. && rlon1 > rlon2. Before the fix, negative grid increment would also show up.

  • Updated county names, fire weather forecast zones, marine county maps, bounds tables.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc almost 9 years ago

GEMPAK - GEMPAK v7.2.2

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Published by mjames-upc over 9 years ago

GEMPAK - Unidata GEMPAK release v7.2.0

This release can be downloaded as either v7.2.0.tar.gz or v7.2.0.zip, which will decompress into the directory gempak-7.2.0/

tar -tvf v7.2.0.tar.gz | head -3
drwxrwxr-x root/root         0 2015-08-04 11:30 gempak-7.2.0/
-rw-rw-r-- root/root      7701 2015-08-04 11:30 gempak-7.2.0/Gemenviron
-rw-rw-r-- root/root      7863 2015-08-04 11:30 gempak-7.2.0/Gemenviron.profile

You can remove and recreate the NAWIPS symbolic link to the new source directory:

rm NAWIPS
ln -s gempak-7.2.0 NAWIPS

Or you can overwrite an existing GEMPAK folder with gempak-7.2.0 to make use of the existing NAWIPS -> GEMPAK symbolic link.

Atmosphere - Meteorological Observation and Forecast - C
Published by mjames-upc over 9 years ago