Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.

Data Delivery Services Available from WSI
under the Unidata Contract

Service Description Cost
Tier I Entire suite of unaltered NIDS products from one
NEXRAD site for a single fixed location.
$100/month
Tier II Entire suite of unaltered NIDS products from any one
NEXRAD site. Site may be changed as desired.
$175/month
Tier III Entire suite of NIDS products from all NEXRAD sites (satellite delivery only). $575/month
Tier IV WSI's NOWrad mosaic radar imagery, updated every 5 minutes, both 2km regional imagery and 8km national imagery. $195/month
Tier V Special Floater Service. Entire suite of unaltered NIDS products from up to three NEXRAD sites where severe weather is occurring. Sites will be determined by joint agreement by Unidata universities. $50
Non-internet Delivery Consists of ingestion subsystem and 1.2m
dish and standard installation.
$10,500
One-time, initial purchase




For contract information contact Unidata Support <support@unidata.ucar.edu>

For product information contact Maria Pirone at 978 670-5149 or on e-mail at mapirone@wsicorp.com.
For customer service contact WSI customer operations at 978 670-5052


Prepared by J. Hansen <jhansen@unidata.ucar.edu>