From jweber at unidata.ucar.edu Tue Aug 24 11:35:42 2004 From: jweber at unidata.ucar.edu (Jeff Weber) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:35:42 -0600 (MDT) Subject: Level II radar data access Message-ID: Hi Mike, I understand you are interested in acquiring level II radar data. Unidata has, with the coordination of the NWS, set up 3 top tier nodes for level II data distribution. Please see: http://www.norman.noaa.gov/publicaffairs/releases/highresdata.html Contact information for all of these sites is included in the above mentioned URL. These are: Purdue http://roskilde.eas.purdue.edu/~level2/ Oklahoma/IRaDS https://www.radarservices.org/ and ERCWC No active url currently.. Contact information for all of these sites is included in the above mentioned URL. Please let us know if we can help further. Cheers, Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Weber jweber at ucar.edu : Unidata Program Center PH:303-497-8676 : University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 : --------------------------------------------------------------------- From jweber at unidata.ucar.edu Wed Aug 25 16:51:36 2004 From: jweber at unidata.ucar.edu (Jeff Weber) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:51:36 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: KMLB and KJAX radar data]] In-Reply-To: <412CE7DD.E698DA35@noaa.gov> References: <412CE7DD.E698DA35@noaa.gov> Message-ID: Hi Tim, Can confirm: ldm at bigbird craft_all]$ ls 20040727 20040801 20040806 20040811 20040816 20040821 20300820 20040728 20040802 20040807 20040812 20040817 20040822 20300821 20040729 20040803 20040808 20040813 20040818 20040823 20300822 20040730 20040804 20040809 20040814 20040819 20040824 20300823 20040731 20040805 20040810 20040815 20040820 20040825 [ldm at bigbird craft_all]$ ls 20300820 KICT [ldm at bigbird craft_all]$ ls 20300821 KICT [ldm at bigbird craft_all]$ ls 20300822 KICT [ldm at bigbird craft_all]$ ls 20300823 KICT [ldm at bigbird craft_all]$ That explains the weird directories..proper time stamp is "critical" for the ldm to function properly. :) There is data in these dirs: [ldm at bigbird KICT]$ ls -l total 15572 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 545979 Aug 20 14:18 KICT_20300820_1908 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 552368 Aug 20 14:28 KICT_20300820_1918 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 553907 Aug 20 14:37 KICT_20300820_1928 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 553532 Aug 20 14:47 KICT_20300820_1937 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 555091 Aug 20 14:57 KICT_20300820_1947 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 553775 Aug 20 15:07 KICT_20300820_1957 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 554614 Aug 20 15:16 KICT_20300820_2007 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 550523 Aug 20 15:26 KICT_20300820_2016 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 561364 Aug 20 15:36 KICT_20300820_2026 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 554278 Aug 20 15:46 KICT_20300820_2036 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 550240 Aug 20 15:56 KICT_20300820_2046 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 549271 Aug 20 16:05 KICT_20300820_2056 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 543998 Aug 20 16:15 KICT_20300820_2105 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 540121 Aug 20 16:25 KICT_20300820_2115 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 532302 Aug 20 16:35 KICT_20300820_2125 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 532896 Aug 20 16:44 KICT_20300820_2135 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 531989 Aug 20 16:54 KICT_20300820_2144 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 526942 Aug 20 17:04 KICT_20300820_2154 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 516630 Aug 20 17:14 KICT_20300820_2204 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 512199 Aug 20 17:24 KICT_20300820_2214 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 518339 Aug 20 17:33 KICT_20300820_2224 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 510954 Aug 20 17:43 KICT_20300820_2233 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 504666 Aug 20 17:53 KICT_20300820_2243 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 503473 Aug 20 18:03 KICT_20300820_2253 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 499681 Aug 20 18:12 KICT_20300820_2303 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 490618 Aug 20 18:22 KICT_20300820_2312 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 481773 Aug 20 18:32 KICT_20300820_2322 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 467593 Aug 20 18:43 KICT_20300820_2332 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 465748 Aug 20 18:53 KICT_20300820_2343 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 445357 Aug 20 19:02 KICT_20300820_2352 [ldm at bigbird KICT]$ but from when...? not sure..could bring them over for display, or crack the header, but I cannot acces the actual files currently due to firewall restrictions..but can get those "lifted" if need be. Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Weber jweber at ucar.edu : Unidata Program Center PH:303-497-8676 : University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 : --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tim D Crum wrote: > Jeff, > > Here is the email from another NCDC Level II user discussing incomplete > VCP12 Level II data at two dates. The ICT data is part of the > "critical" need for the BDDS to have the right time. As per our > telecon. Any thoughts would be welcomed. > > > Tim > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Fwd: KMLB and KJAX radar data] > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:08:03 -0400 > From: "Alan Hall" > To: Tim D Crum > References: <1015bbd01.bd011015b at osf.noaa.gov> > > I have placed several files on our ftp server > ftp://ftp.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/download/ for you to have a look at. > > KMLB and KJAX as discussed below: > KMLB20040814_00-07.tar > KJAX20040814_00-07.tar > KJAX20040814_08-15.tar > > and files of a wrong date for KICT > KICT20300820_16-23.tar > KICT20300821_00-07.tar > KICT20300821_08-15.tar > KICT20300821_16-23.tar > KICT20300822_00-07.tar > KICT20300822_08-15.tar > KICT20300822_16-23.tar > KICT20300823_00-07.tar > KICT20300823_08-15.tar > > KICT seems fine now, but as you can see, it went on for some time. > > Alan. > > Tim D Crum wrote: > > > Alan, > > > > Yes, please send me the files. One difference between JAX/MLB and > > TBW > > is that TBW was on the final configuration for the Level II data flow > > (i.e., connection directly between the BDDS and NWSNet). I do not > > know > > if that has any relationship to the problem or not. We can only > > learn > > be examining situations like this. > > > > Thanks for the offer. I'll have the data examined. > > > > > > Tim > > > > From jweber at unidata.ucar.edu Wed Aug 25 16:51:59 2004 From: jweber at unidata.ucar.edu (Jeff Weber) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 16:51:59 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [Fwd: Problems with Archive Level II from KMLB] (fwd) Message-ID: Hi Tim, Re KMLB on the 14th of August: Looks like some gaps do exist..and some volume discrepancies around 0700Z I did not run the attached program, but hope this sheds some light. If needed I can run (I think) the attached script.. _From bigbird.tamu.edu [ldm at bigbird KMLB]$ ls -l total 12304 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 215092 Aug 13 20:06 KMLB_20040814_0001 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 204476 Aug 13 20:44 KMLB_20040814_0039 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 203543 Aug 13 21:18 KMLB_20040814_0113 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 198361 Aug 13 21:22 KMLB_20040814_0118 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 196283 Aug 13 21:26 KMLB_20040814_0122 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 192508 Aug 13 21:30 KMLB_20040814_0126 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 190208 Aug 13 21:34 KMLB_20040814_0130 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 148187 Aug 13 22:21 KMLB_20040814_0217 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 183596 Aug 13 22:55 KMLB_20040814_0251 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 152158 Aug 13 22:59 KMLB_20040814_0255 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 452296 Aug 13 23:08 KMLB_20040814_0303 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 135001 Aug 13 23:24 KMLB_20040814_0320 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 227165 Aug 13 23:29 KMLB_20040814_0324 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 142352 Aug 14 00:07 KMLB_20040814_0402 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 182489 Aug 14 00:11 KMLB_20040814_0407 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 76403 Aug 14 03:17 KMLB_20040814_0713 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 83846 Aug 14 03:26 KMLB_20040814_0721 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 106867 Aug 14 05:12 KMLB_20040814_0908 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 134497 Aug 14 05:34 KMLB_20040814_0929 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 134445 Aug 14 06:03 KMLB_20040814_0959 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 123278 Aug 14 06:07 KMLB_20040814_1003 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 202194 Aug 14 06:37 KMLB_20040814_1033 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 246065 Aug 14 06:50 KMLB_20040814_1045 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 131702 Aug 14 07:49 KMLB_20040814_1145 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 145247 Aug 14 08:01 KMLB_20040814_1157 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 267329 Aug 14 08:18 KMLB_20040814_1214 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 248430 Aug 14 08:27 KMLB_20040814_1223 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 152386 Aug 14 08:31 KMLB_20040814_1227 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 188529 Aug 14 08:52 KMLB_20040814_1248 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 187024 Aug 14 09:18 KMLB_20040814_1313 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 253420 Aug 14 09:47 KMLB_20040814_1343 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 238546 Aug 14 10:04 KMLB_20040814_1400 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 123255 Aug 14 10:08 KMLB_20040814_1404 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 249291 Aug 14 10:21 KMLB_20040814_1417 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 232405 Aug 14 10:25 KMLB_20040814_1421 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 190984 Aug 14 10:29 KMLB_20040814_1425 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 147493 Aug 14 11:37 KMLB_20040814_1533 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 248234 Aug 14 11:41 KMLB_20040814_1537 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 203532 Aug 14 12:08 KMLB_20040814_1602 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 207182 Aug 14 12:12 KMLB_20040814_1608 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 144388 Aug 14 12:16 KMLB_20040814_1612 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 95812 Aug 14 12:25 KMLB_20040814_1620 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 314314 Aug 14 12:33 KMLB_20040814_1629 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 144566 Aug 14 12:37 KMLB_20040814_1633 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 234005 Aug 14 13:20 KMLB_20040814_1715 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 303170 Aug 14 13:36 KMLB_20040814_1732 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 233450 Aug 14 15:26 KMLB_20040814_1922 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 300894 Aug 14 15:48 KMLB_20040814_1943 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 293238 Aug 14 15:52 KMLB_20040814_1947 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 240173 Aug 14 15:56 KMLB_20040814_1952 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 174011 Aug 14 17:46 KMLB_20040814_2142 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 358439 Aug 14 18:11 KMLB_20040814_2207 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 284649 Aug 14 18:15 KMLB_20040814_2211 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 271719 Aug 14 18:37 KMLB_20040814_2232 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 451410 Aug 14 19:06 KMLB_20040814_2302 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 289706 Aug 14 19:15 KMLB_20040814_2310 -rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm ldm 566047 Aug 14 19:19 KMLB_20040814_2315 [ldm at bigbird KMLB]$ So this is what we ingested and have access to... Hope this helps, Jeff --------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Weber jweber at ucar.edu : Unidata Program Center PH:303-497-8676 : University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 : --------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tim D Crum wrote: > Jeff, > > Here is the email from Peter Dodge discussing incomplete VCP12 Level II > data. As per our telecon. Any thoughts would be welcomed. > > > Tim > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Problems with Archive Level II from KMLB > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:15:25 -0400 (EDT) > From: Peter Dodge > To: Tim D Crum > CC: Mark A Fresch ,"Colin J. McAdie" > ,Scott Spratt , Dave > Sharp > References: <4569e484b5.484b54569e at osf.noaa.gov> > <407C1004.8199A6B5 at noaa.gov><4082DD8A.3617C179 at noaa.gov> > <40F2DFFC.C07C11A6 at noaa.gov> <40FE8ABF.75AA15F7 at noaa.gov> > > Tim, I know you may not be the person to handle this but figured you > might know who would. I have obtained all the Archive Level II tar files > for H Charley from NCDC (as has Paul Harasti and Wen-Chau lee among > others). Now we all have to revise our software to handle VCP 121 but > that > should not be too big a deal, and should benefit us in the long run. > Hpwever, we have a problem with Melbourne data after OOZ on the > 14th The data were recorded in VCP 12 and the files are very small. At > first I thought they might be bzip2 compressed but that does not seem to > be the case. I have a simple C program, chk_nxrd_msg_types.c (I have > attched a copy) that dumps out the az el from each radial data record > (msg type 1) and also dumps out the other msg types that it finds. I > have > attached the output from that program for two level II volumes from MLB, > for 0001 and 0307 UTC on 14 August. As you can see from the ascii files > it > looks like a lot of the intermediate sweeps did not make it into the > NCDC > archive. We are hoping that those data still reside at MLB somewhere. We > really would like these dara because they could help in describing the > intensity change in Charley - especially in the TBW-MLB dual Doppler > lobe. Thanks for any help you can give us! Peter Dodge