Hello IDV users.
I want to start using ISL, and I wonder if anyone could share wisdom
or example scripts?
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1. Making current-weather bundles into .mov animations for campus kiosk screens.
I know I can save a bundle as .isl, and then make an hourly crontab with the
line:
runIDV Mybundle.isl
But now I want to run this on a headless server that doesn't have a video card
or X windows running.
Any advice? I should run Xvfb I hear? Does it run all the time like a daemon,
or should the crontab or script start an X server for each job?
Any experience welcomed.
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2. Converting a .xidv bundle to a .zidv bundle.
I enjoy many .xidv bundles that call on remote data sources.
They take a while to load, and then saving off a .zidv requires reading all
that data again,
since the data in memory are not what is saved in the .zidv.
Is there a way to do it in the background as a script?
If not, how hard would it be to add this hugely useful functionality?
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3. I dearly wish I could do 2. above, with time-driver controls
(start and end times and intervals) on the command line or in the .isl script.
There are many great huge time aggregated datasets online now, like 3h 10km IR
globally since 1980 (!) as below.
How I wish I could slice off case studies to .zidv files
without having to manually manipulate the time driverand
reload and then reread the data yet again for the .zidv writeout,
as in point 2. above.
My favorite data URL these days:
netcdf
dods://data.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/cdr/gridsat/gridsat-aggregation-physical.ncml
{
...
float irwin(time=87628, lat=2000, lon=5143);
:_CoordinateAxes = "time lat lon ";
:long_name = "Brightness Temperature (~11um)";
:units = "Kelvin";
Thanks for any advice!
Brian Mapes
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Brian Mapes, Professor
Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
RSMAS, University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149-1098
