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The Department of Atmospheric Science has the RadX radar software installed on several computers in the 422 computer lab. The RadX program are located in /usr/local/bin.
RadX Setup
- Note: Do not run this script if you use any other version of NetCDF on your computer ESPECIALLY 4.2 and NEWER!!
- Note: Do not run this script on any computer without disabling all the epel and rpmforge repos afterward, or your next updates from RedHat will probably break your computer
Here is a script used to setup RadX on Redhat computers.
Converting files with RadX
Additional information is available on the Radx website: http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/titan/docs/radial_formats/radx.html
The Radx Software Package contains many applications for working with radar data. A full list of these applications is available on the Radx site.
RadxConvert is used to convert stored radar data from one format to another. The different radar file formats that Radx can read/write to are:
From http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/titan/docs/radial_formats/radx.html#radx_convert
The file format DORADE as mentioned above is the same as the sweep files that are used in the SOLO radar editing program.
RadxConvert can convert a single radar file or an entire folder, but only to one file type at a time. To convert a file or group of radar files the format is:
RadxConvert -<filetype> -f <filename>
where the filetype is the file type you want your current radar files to be converted to and filename is the name of the file or folder you want to convert.
Example: convert example_folder to uf file. The command would be: RadxConvert -uf -f example_folder
After the process runs, there will be two new directories created. The first is called 'output' and inside 'output' will be another directory 8 numbers from the year, month, and day from the data you used in RadxConvert. Inside the date directory you will find the individual uf files from the example_folder data.
Issues with RadX
There do not appear to be any issues converting data with RadxConvert on computers running Redhat 6, however there are is an issue when trying to convert National Weather Service radar data to DORADE (or sweep) on machines that are using Redhat 5. The RadxConvert program runs but the converted DORADE files do not contain any radar data. This problem does not happen when using RadxConvert on Redhat 6 machines. Other file type conversions do not seem affected on Redhat 5 and 6 machines (example: converting DORADE to uf on Redhat 5 does not have any problems).