[GRASSLIST:2255] Re: NEXRAD radar stage III precipitation estimates into GRASS 5.x

[Ed Davison]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 06:37, Thomas Adams wrote:
> I'm with the Ohio River Forecast Center and we generate Stage-III (now
> called MPE - Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimator, due to a number of
> algorithmic changes) data for the Ohio River basin and surrounding
> area. The problem is, few of the 13 River Forecast Centers (RFCs) save
> the data in NetCDF format. The data format used by all RFCs is called
> 'xmrg' format (a binary file), which is unique to RFCs. However, there
> is a C program (source available) that will decode this data and write
> it to an ASCII lat-lon-value file from which you can easily reformat
> to import into GRASS, re-sample the data, and display in whatever
> projection you desire - I have a script that does this (also
> available).

I, for one, would most definitely be interested in the C program (and
source) to decode and write this data out.  Can you post it to a web
site somewhere?

Ed