20010109: more on Radar Products-ADMIN NOTICE NOUS40 KWBC (fwd)

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• Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:21:26 -0700

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NOUS40 KWBC 092106
FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1861          JANUARY 9... 2001

ATTENTION  FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS/NOAAPORT USERS

SUBJECT COMPRESSED RADAR PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE ON NOAAPORT

THIS IS A FOLLOW UP TO FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1822 DATED
NOVEMBER 6... 2000.

THE NWS HAS NOW BEGUN BROADCASTING RADAR PRODUCTS OVER
NOAAPORT WITHOUT DATA ENCRYPTION AND IN A COMPRESSED
FORMAT /COMPRESSION FORMAT DETAILS BELOW/. THE INITIAL
PRODUCT SET FROM EACH WSR-88D RADAR SITE IS AS FOLLOWS

NEXRAD HEADER  WMO HEADER     PRODUCT
19/R           SDUS5I CCCC    BASE REFLECTIVITY - 124 NMI
               N0RXXX         RANGE
                              /LOWEST ELEVATION ANGLE/
27/V           SDUS5I CCCC    BASE RADIAL VELOCITY - 124
               N0VXXX         NMI RANGE
                              /LOWEST ELEVATION ANGEL/
37/CR          SDUS5I CCCC    COMPOSITE REFLECTIVITY -
               NCRXXX         16  LEVELS...
                              124 NMI RANGE
56/SRM         SDUS5I CCCC    STORM RELATIVE MEAN RADIAL
               N0SXXX         VELOCITY
                              /LOWEST ELEVATION ANGLE/
57/VIL         SDUS5I CCCC    VERTICAL INTEGRATED LIQUID
               NVLXXX
80/STP         SDUS5I CCCC    SURFACE RAINFALL
               NTPXXX         ACCUMULATION-
                              STORM TOTAL

NOTE  IN THE WMO HEADER I HAS A VALUE 0-9... CCCC IS
THE ORIGINATING SITE IDENTIFIER... AND XXX IS THE
WSR-88D IDENTIFIER.

THE RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION ALGORITHM USED IS BASED
ON THE ZLIB COMPRESSION LIBRARIES.  THESE LIBRARIES
AND DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEB
ADDRESS

FTP/COLON///FTP.FREESOFTWARE.COM/PUB/INFOZIP/ZLIB

A DOCUMENT DESCRIBING THE RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION
APPROACH IS ACCESSIBLE UNDER THE WHATS NEW HEADING
ON THE NOAAPORT HOME PAGE... ADDRESS

HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML
/NOAAPORT.SHTML

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

MR. MICHAEL CARELLI... NWS NIDS ADMINISTRATOR
AT 301-713-1724  EXT. 184
OR EMAIL MICHAEL.CARELLI/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV

THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS SYSTEMS OPERATIONS
CENTER CHANGE NOTICES WEB PAGE. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW.

HTTP//WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/OSO/NOTICES/NOTICES.SHTML

DATA MANAGEMENT
DATA DISSEMINATION BRANCH
TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER
RTH WASHINGTON SENDS


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