[GRASSLIST:2251] Re: NEXRAD radar stage III precipitation estimates into GRASS 5.x

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 12:59:24PM -0700, Tye Parzybok wrote:
> GRASS users,
> 
> Is anyone aware of a method to import NEXRAD radar stage III
> precipitation estimates into GRASS 5.x as a raster or GRASS ASCII
> raster? It appears as though ‘r.stage3’ works only with NetCDF data
> provided by the River Forecast Centers (maybe only the Arkansas Red
> Basin River Forecast Center), but I’d like to import free radar provided
> from NCDC at this site:
> http://has.ncdc.noaa.gov/plclimprod/plsql/HAS.FileAppSelect?datasetname=7000
> 
> into GRASS 5.x. The data files from this web site are the raw stage III
> data from NOAA/National Weather Service.

If it helps: since a few days GDAL supports netcdf, should be general
netcdf support (fetch the GDAL-CVS version and compile).

Markus