Before MRMS, we received a set of radar mosaics from SPC, that were in NIDS
format. It was basically a very large raster NIDS file on a Lambert
Conformal grid, I believe they were 1km resolution. Think composite
reflectivity but bigger. I didn't think those images were still being
generated.
Dan.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 12:18 AM Gerald Creager <gcreager@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Howdy! I'm looking at the MRMS data feed from NWS, and I'm seeing 2
> different MergedReflectivityQComposite datasets: "grib2" and "spcnids". Can
> anyone share insight as to what the SPCNIDS dataset comprises?
>
> Thanks
> Gerry
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