HOW TO: Uploading hurricane graphics

[Tim Vasquez]

A few days ago we were posting hourly maps, compositing US and Mexican radar looking like this:
http://www.weathergraphics.com/images/emily2007.gif

Here's how it was done:

A script file with these contents was executed in the Digital Atmosphere schedule hourly:

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BLANK
ERASE
IMPORTRADAR
ERASE
RADAR,br248,bro hgx dfx epz
DOWNLOAD
HURRICANE
HURRMODEL,2
PRODUCT,plf,0,Wind and SST
EXPORT,c:\st\special\weathermap.gif
EXPORT,c:\st\special\emily@HHZ@MMZ.gif
SPAWN,c:\st\special\process.bat,,1

The spawn command executed a batch file at c:\st\special\process.bat with this:

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ftp -s:upload.scr [url]www.stormtrack.org[/url]

This executed the following script, upload.scr:

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ourlogin
ourpassword
cd stormtrack.org/special
bin
hash
prompt
mput weathermap.gif
bye