{"id":171,"date":"2018-08-16T20:41:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:51:01","slug":"xcd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/software\/xcd\/","title":{"rendered":"McIDAS-XCD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 400px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-content\/themes\/mcidas\/include\/img\/suite-overview-images\/XCD-USWindVectors.jpg\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Streamlines over the midwest\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>McIDAS-XCD (McIDAS-X Conventional data Decoder) enables workstations running McIDAS-X to process and serve the NWSTG\/NCEP channel of the National Weather Service NOAAPORT broadcast. McIDAS-XCD stores and serves its data in formats that are compatible with McIDAS-X. Thus, users of the data normally run McIDAS-X to display, analyze and interpret the data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visit the links below for additional information about McIDAS-XCD.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/software\/xcd\/download\/\">What&#8217;s New<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/doc\/xcd_guide\/current\/install-2.html\">System Requirements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/doc\/xcd_guide.html\">Documentation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/software\/xcd\/download\/\">Download<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/software\/sdi\/noaaport\/\">NOAAPORT Receive System page<\/a> for information about the NOAAPORT ingest system. Only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/mug\/\">McIDAS Users&#8217; Group (MUG)<\/a> members subscribed to the McIDAS-XCD participation category can download the McIDAS-XCD software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS-XCD (McIDAS-X Conventional data Decoder) enables workstations running McIDAS-X to process and serve the NWSTG\/NCEP channel of the National Weather Service NOAAPORT broadcast. McIDAS-XCD stores and serves its data in formats that are compatible with McIDAS-X. Thus, users of the data normally run McIDAS-X to display, analyze and interpret the data. Visit the links below [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":25,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/4004"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/mcidas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}