Hi Pete, re: NLDN data >Understood - and we are attempting to make use of the ASCII feed Vaisala >helped us get established internally > >(We are going to overlay this data on radar imagery using NAWIPS.) > >So one question remains - what is the format of an ascii data file that is >decodable by dcnldn? Here is the information we have on the NLDN data format: Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu ->Data http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/ ->Lightning http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/lightning_data_2.html ->Data Description http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/lightning.html Cheers, Tom -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+