Significant Modifications – McIDAS-X v. 2025.1

This page contains significant software modifications included in McIDAS-X version 2025.1.  See the 2025.1 Software Changes to see all of the code changes included in the release.

  1. Performance updates and bug fixes for the MTG (Meteosat Third Generation) ADDE servers for both nominal and high resolution data.  The MTG FCI servers are being released as a separate package from McIDAS-X.  These are the first operational servers written in Python.
  2. Initial release of the ADDE server (mtglks) for the MTG LI (lightning imager) data. New commands, LTGDISP and LTGLIST, were developed to display all lightning point data from MTG LI and GOES-R Series GLM.
  3. The GRD commands and grib/grid servers were updated to access true Mercator grib files. There were also modifications to -XCD to handle these data. GRDLIST will list the projection as MERC for the new true Mercator grids; grids previously listed as MERC are now RECT; CONF are now LAMB; and LAMB are now TANC.  GRD commands with GPRO= will match on the new projections when accessing data from updated servers. Users with GPRO= in scripts may need to update their scripts.  PLANET= was also deprecated with these changes.
  4. Updated the LEO command to use NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and Suomi NPP, replacing the previous NOAA satellites.
  5. The world map files, OUTLSUPW and OUTLHRES, were updated with newer and more detailed shapefiles to include all of the Canary Islands and many islands worldwide. The political boundary map, OUTLHPOL, now includes South Sudan. The regional maps, OUTLSUPU and OUTLUSAM, now include the Canadian province of Nunavut and the correct location of Isla Guadalupe.
  6. Updated USCOUNTY.MAP, USSTATE.MAP and USZONE.MAP files with the most recent National Weather Service GIS-AWIPS Shapefile database updates. The US*.MAP files are used by the WWDISP command and the MAP command’s COUNTY=, MARINE=, STATE= and ZONE= keywords.
  7. Updated the station database (STNDB.CORE) to include the latest version of NCAR/RAP stations. (https://weather.rap.ucar.edu/surface/stations.txt)
  8. Updates to the servers for the beta release of McIDAS-XCD.
  9. Updated the McIDAS-XRD Package included in the McIDAS-X installation files to include:
    • Updates to the RGB command with new recipes for the NGFS Micro-physics RGB and the blowing snow RGB for VIIRS and ABI data.
    • OUTALLSTATES, a high resolution world map that includes all state boundaries.
    • Updates to the A, AA, AAA servers to improve performance for the SSEC Satellite Data Services archive servers for early GOES data.
    • Updates to the IMGNORM, LLBOX, MAP2TEXT, MAKEMAP, RADAR and XFGRID commands.
    • Updates to the -XRD Python package to use Python 3, specifically to correct an error when using ZA with a single set of double-quotes.
    • See the McIDAS-XRD Instructions and Software page for the complete list of software included in McIDAS-XRD 2025.1.

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