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1. Setup for Level II displays
• If other displays and data are already loaded, select the Edit→Remove All Displays and Data menu item or the icon in the toolbar to clear them out.
• Make sure the menu item Projections→Auto-set Projection option is checked on.
• Show the 3D wireframe box by toggling on the main menu item View→Show→Wireframe Box.
2. Open the Level II Data Source Chooser
• Open the Data Choosers.
• In the Data Choosers click on the Radar node in the chooser tree. Then click on the NEXRAD Remote tab to see the Level II radar data remote chooser panel.
• In the catalog selector drop-down, select the motherlode catalog that is included.

  http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/radarServer/catalog.xml

  If it is not in the list, type it into the catalog selector area and press enter. In the collections drop-down, select Level II Radar for Case Study CCS039
  • Zoom in the map and select the station KDVN.
  • Click on the Absolute time radio button. Select the images from 1998-06-29 21:00:00Z through 1998-06-29 21:59:00Z.
  • Click the Add Source button.

Let's look at some of the properties of this dataset.

• Open the Data Source Properties editor for Level II Radar Data(DVN).
  
• If you are looking at realtime data, you can set up the file polling information here to automatically reload new data as it becomes available.
• If the volume scans do not contain station information and you did not set the station information in the chooser, you can change the location using the widget in the properties dialog.
• Subset the times and choose the last five times from 1998-06-29 21:35:57Z to 1998-06-29 21:59:36Z and click OK.

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