data Site???
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Jon Wright
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data Site???
Stumbled over this site, http://www.opennoaaport.net/digatmos, which has heavy reference to Digital Atmosphere. Being a "Non Expert" I am asking if anyone knows about this site, what is available to us and "How" do we use it, if it is allowed.
The site is from Jose in Puerto Rico who has a Noaaport direct satellite feed. There is a Yahoo group for Noaaport that Jose frequently responds to and writes a lot of software.
Depending on your skills, you can go over to the local trailer park and find an unused 10 foot dish and have your own satellite feed. If you have the dish this can be done for well under a grand. The Yahoo groups has all the info. While I think a 10 foot dish in the back yard would be a thing of beauty, the wife says no way.
Depending on your skills, you can go over to the local trailer park and find an unused 10 foot dish and have your own satellite feed. If you have the dish this can be done for well under a grand. The Yahoo groups has all the info. While I think a 10 foot dish in the back yard would be a thing of beauty, the wife says no way.
This a post from the noaa port group. Following his instructions (text on website) I was able to get DA to read the grib files. Try this
http://www.noaaport.net/projects/dagrib/
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Sometime ago I tried making Digital Atmosphere import the
noaaport grib data but I kept running into problems. I recently
tried once more, and I discovered how to do it. In the process
I also tried the unidata program IDV; it is written in java, and available
for windows. It is probably the closest thing to gempak for windows,
and it has a very nice interface. It can get the data from internet
servers or from the local file system.
The nice thing is that both DA and IDV can read the same kind of file,
surface, upperair, radar, produced by nbsp, and I have now added the
subset of grib files that those programs understand. So, those data files,
which nbsp saves under
/var/noaaport/data/digatmos
can be read by both programs (assuming that the directory has been exported
e.g. via samba). I have done this grib thing with some guess work,
so it may not be 100% consistent yet in the sense that there may be
a few grib files that cannot be imported by one or the other program (although
I have tried to eliminate all of those). I have put some
sample grib data files in
http://www.noaaport.net/projects/dagrib
that can be used to get an idea what DA and IDV can do with them.
(DA users should read the README.da file.)
Those who have installed nbsp-1.3r3 can test this (and help me!)
by simply taking the "dafilter.rc-defaults-1.3r4" file in that directory
and saving it as
/usr/local/etc/nbsp/defaults/dafilter.rc
(which will replace the original that is there). (Stop nbsp before
replacing the file.) Once I feel there are not too many wrinkles left
I will build the new packages for
nbsp-1.3r4
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Jose
http://www.noaaport.net/projects/dagrib/
*************************************************************
Sometime ago I tried making Digital Atmosphere import the
noaaport grib data but I kept running into problems. I recently
tried once more, and I discovered how to do it. In the process
I also tried the unidata program IDV; it is written in java, and available
for windows. It is probably the closest thing to gempak for windows,
and it has a very nice interface. It can get the data from internet
servers or from the local file system.
The nice thing is that both DA and IDV can read the same kind of file,
surface, upperair, radar, produced by nbsp, and I have now added the
subset of grib files that those programs understand. So, those data files,
which nbsp saves under
/var/noaaport/data/digatmos
can be read by both programs (assuming that the directory has been exported
e.g. via samba). I have done this grib thing with some guess work,
so it may not be 100% consistent yet in the sense that there may be
a few grib files that cannot be imported by one or the other program (although
I have tried to eliminate all of those). I have put some
sample grib data files in
http://www.noaaport.net/projects/dagrib
that can be used to get an idea what DA and IDV can do with them.
(DA users should read the README.da file.)
Those who have installed nbsp-1.3r3 can test this (and help me!)
by simply taking the "dafilter.rc-defaults-1.3r4" file in that directory
and saving it as
/usr/local/etc/nbsp/defaults/dafilter.rc
(which will replace the original that is there). (Stop nbsp before
replacing the file.) Once I feel there are not too many wrinkles left
I will build the new packages for
nbsp-1.3r4
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Jose