WXP Users Guide

WXP User Environment

• Overview
• User Shell
• Program Basics
• Prompts and Menus
• Resource Basics
• Setting Resources
• Databases
• Input and Output Files
• Filenames
• Plot Domains
• Regions
• Forecast Times
• Vertical Level
• Variables
• Data Plotting
• Gridding and Contouring
• Vector Plotting
• Map Plotting
• Graphics Output
• Graphics Color Resources
• Graphics Resources
• Station Subsets
• Text Output
• Printing Messages
• Exit Values

Data Ingest

• FOS Text Feeds
• Binary Feeds
• NOAAPORT Feeds
• Data Ingest
• Header Files
• PAN Messages
• Scouring Old Data

Data Decoding and Parsing

• Surface Data Conversion
• Synoptic Data Conversion
• Upper Air Data Conversion
• Radar Data Conversion
• Other Data Conversion
• Data Parsing

Analysis and Display

• Surface Data Analysis
• Upper Air Data Analysis
• Radar Data Analysis
• Forecast Model Output (MOS) Analysis
• Forecast Model Gridpoint (GRIB) Contouring
• Satellite Image Display
• Miscellaneous Analysis

Annotation, Overlay and Animation

• WXP Loop Program
• Scripting, Overlays and Animation

General Purpose Programs

• Information Programs
• Mathematics Programs
• Meteorological Computations
• Postscript/HPGL/GIF Concatenation

System Administration

• Overview
• Resource File
• Name Conventions
• Parsing Data and Header Files
• Automatic Data Conversion and Scouring
• Forecast Model Files
• Variable Files
• Units Conversion
• Time and Level Menu Files
• WXP Shell Menus
• Case Studies Setup

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