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Table of Contents

Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer

1

1.0

1.1

System Requirements

1.2

Downloading and Running the IDV

1.3

Data Formats and Sources

1.4

Documentation and Support

1.5

1.6

1.7

License and Copyright

2

Getting Started

2.0

An Animation Loop of Satellite Imagery

2.1

An Animation Loop of NWS WSR-88D Level III Radar Imagery

2.2

2.3

Plots from Gridded Data

2.4

Cross Boundary Subset

2.5

Surface Observations - METAR and Synoptic Plots

2.6

Skew-T Plot of RAOB data (Balloon soundings)

2.7

2.8

3

3.0

3.4

Choosing Data Sources

3.4.0

Choose Data on Disk

3.4.1

3.4.2

Choose Cataloged Data

3.4.3

Choose Satellite Imagery

3.4.4

Choose NEXRAD Level III Radar Data

3.4.5

Choose NEXRAD Level II Radar Data

3.4.6

Choose Radar Data from Remote Server

3.4.7

Choose Point Observation Data

3.4.8

Choose RAOB Data (atmospheric balloon sounding)

3.4.9

Choose NOAA National Profiler Network Data

3.4.10

Poll on files in a Directory

3.5

The Field Selector

3.5.7

Data Source Properties

4

4.0

4.1

View Properties

4.2

4.3

4.4

Zooming, Panning and Rotating

4.5

4.6

5

Display Controls

5.0

5.0.0

Display Legends

5.0.1

5.0.2

5.0.3

Properties Dialog

5.0.4

5.0.5

Display Visibility

5.1

Gridded Data Displays

5.1.0

Plan View Controls

5.1.1

Flow Plan Control

5.1.2

Value Plan View Control

5.1.3

Vertical Cross-section Control

5.1.4

More with Vertical Cross-section Control

5.1.5

Isosurface Control

5.1.6

Volume Rendering Control

5.1.7

Point Volume Control

5.1.8

Hovmoller Control

5.1.9

Ensemble Grid Control

5.1.10

Grid Trajectory Control

5.2

Satellite and Radar Displays

5.2.0

5.2.1

Image Sequence Control

5.2.2

Scatter Analysis Controls

5.2.3

WSR-88D Level III Control

5.2.4

Radar RHI Control

5.2.5

Level 2 Radar Display Controls

5.2.5.0

Radar Sweep Control

5.2.5.1

5.2.5.2

Radar Volume Control

5.2.5.3

5.2.5.4

Radar Cross Section

5.2.6

5.3

Profiler Controls

5.3.0

Profiler Time/Height Control

5.3.1

Profiler Station Plot Control

5.3.2

Profiler 3D Multi-station Control

5.4

5.4.0

Data Probe/Time Series

5.4.1

Time-Height Control

5.4.2

Vertical Profile Control

5.4.3

Data Transect Control

5.5

Mapping Controls

5.5.0

5.5.1

Topography Control

5.5.2

Shapefile Control

5.6

Observation and Location Controls

5.6.0

Point Data Plot

5.6.1

Observation List Control

5.6.2

Gridded Point Data

5.6.3

Sounding Display

5.6.4

Location Control

5.6.5

WorldWind Control

5.6.6

5.6.7

Point Cloud Control

5.7

Miscellaneous Controls

5.7.0

Storm Track Control

5.7.1

Advanced Dvorak Technique Control

5.7.2

Mutli-Display Holder

5.7.3

Range and Bearing Control

5.7.4

5.7.5

Drawing Control

5.7.6

Transect Drawing Control

5.7.7

Location Indicator Control

5.7.8

5.7.9

HTML and the IDV

5.7.10

QuickTime Movie Control

5.7.11

5.7.12

Probsevere(NCEP)/GeoJson Control

5.7.13

Web Map Server(WMS)/Background Image Control

5.7.14

5.7.15

Weather Text Product Control

5.7.16

5.8

6

6.0

User Preferences

6.1

Projection Manager

6.2

Color Table Editor

6.3

Layout Model Editor

6.4

Display Settings

6.5

Parameter Alias Editor

6.6

Parameter Defaults Editor

6.7

Parameter Groups Editor

6.8

Contour Properties Editor

6.9

Image and Movie Capture

6.10

6.11

Message Console

6.12

Support Request Form

7

7.0

7.1

7.1.0

7.1.1

7.1.2

7.1.3

ISL Data and Displays

7.1.4

Data Source Types

7.1.5

ISL Images and Movies

7.1.6

Writing Text Files

7.1.7

Changing Bundle Properties

7.1.8

Scripting with Jython

7.1.9

7.1.10

Display Properties

7.2

7.3

7.3.0

7.3.1

7.3.2

7.3.3

7.3.4

7.4

Site Configuration

7.4.1

7.4.1.0

7.4.1.1

Plugin Jar Files

7.4.1.2

Creating Map Plugin

7.4.2

Resource Viewer

7.4.3

Configuring Image Defaults

7.4.4

Adding in new GRIB tables

7.5

IDV Special Data Formats

7.5.0

Text (ASCII) Point Data Format

7.5.1

Location XML Files

7.5.2

Image XML Files

7.5.3

Image Movie Files

7.5.4

7.6

7.7

Command Line Arguments

7.8

Performance Tuning

7.9

Building the IDV from Source

7.10

Wind Barbs in the IDV

8

8.0

Examples of Display Types

8.0.0

8.0.1

8.0.2

8.0.3

Radar -- Level II WSR-88D Data Displays

8.0.4

8.0.5

8.0.6

8.0.7

8.0.8

Miscellaneous Display Types

8.0.8.0

8.0.8.1

Multi-Panel Display

8.0.8.2

8.0.8.3