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20030908: IDD-Brazil

>From: Waldenio Almeida <address@hidden>
>Organization: CPTEC/INPE
>Keywords: 200309052110.h85LA8Ld027776 LDM IDD-Brazil

Hi Waldenio,

>        Thanks for your reply. I think that the IDD system can grown
>very fast in Brazil, because many universities may be interested  in 
>these data over internet. (Something between 10 and 50, or more...).

This is very good news.  The top level relay node at UFRJ should be
configured by the end of this week (if there are not delays here at
Unidata).  After it is setup, it will be transferred to NCE (24x7
operation) and connected to the internet.  David Garrana and I will
then transfer data relay duties from brisa to the new machine (solon)
and work out whatever bugs may be found.  After that, it will be ready
to relay data from Unidata IDD nodes in the US.

>I am sure that the Universidade de Sao Paulo will be very interested
>too. (I can contact them). Now, i will contact David.

Please do contact them.  An old friend of mine, Oswaldo Massambani, is
somewhere at the Universidade de Sao Paulo and I think that he is still
actively involved in radar (Oswaldo and I were on a research project,
PEP, in Spain in 1981).

>   The CPTEC can contribute with some resources, and earn some  more
>from FAPESP, at Sao Paulo. The CPTEC is part of INPE, a Federal 
>institute for Space research.

This sounds very promising.  We will need to explore this as time goes
on.

>Here at CPTEC we have 2  supercomputers, 
>a NEC SX-6 and a NEC SX-4, where we run a global GCM model (named the
>COLA/CPTEC GCM), a regional model (ETA), hydrological models, etc. Now
>we are working to improve our GTS data decoding, data storage and data
>assimilation.

Do you use any of the global model output from NCEP?  We make a lot of
this data available through the IDD, so if you are already FTPing it
(like David is), it would make sense to instead get by the IDD.

>The LDM system and UNIDATA decoders meet these objectives.

Wonderful!

>Best regards,
>Waldenio Gambi
>Pre-Processing Team
>CPTEC/INPE

Cheers,

Tom

>Unidata Support wrote:
>> 
>> >From: Waldenio Almeida <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: CPTEC/INPE
>> >Keywords: 200309052110.h85LA8Ld027776 LDM IDD-Brazil
>> 
>> Hi Wandenio,
>> 
>> Emily forwarded your inquiry about the LDM, GEMPAK, McIDAS, and IDV
>> to Unidata User Support for reply.
>> 
>> >Thank you for your attention on our mistake in our application.
>> >Here at CPTEC/INPE (Brazil), we are very interested on LDM system, and
>> >also to learn about GEMPAK, McIDAS and IDV.
>> 
>> The workshops are a perfect venue for doing this.
>> 
>> >In Brazil, there are many
>> >universities and institutes that exchange meteorological data over
>> >internet, but they do it with ftp and shell scripts. A system like LDM
>> >can be a great improvement.
>> 
>> I am working with David Garrana Coelho <address@hidden> at the
>> Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro to establish a top level IDD
>> relay node initially for Brazil and Argentina, and then for the
>> rest of South America.  We have named this project IDD-Brazil in the
>> hopes that it will grow into an internet data disribution system
>> that extends our own system here in the US.  Do you know David?
>> I have CCed him on this email exchange.
>> 
>> >Even our organization (CPTEC) have 300
>> >meteorological automatic data colleting stations whose data are not
>> >distributed over GTS. May it be done with LDM ?.
>> 
>> Yes, absolutely.  The LDM is a wonderful tool for fanning out unique
>> data holdings at user sites to the greater research and educational
>> community.
>> 
>> >I have seen that LDM is
>> >available to region 4. Can it be on region 3 too ? (South America).
>> 
>> Yes.  As I mentioned previously, David and I have been working towards
>> the establishment of the top level IDD relay node at UFRJ which has a
>> good Internet-2 connection provided by RNP.  The LDM has also been
>> installed and operated at the Universidade Federal do Para.  They have
>> been inactive over the summer months, but they are intending to once
>> again start receiving data this fall.  While they once received data
>> directly from our program here in Boulder, Colorado, they will next
>> receive it from UFRJ.
>> 
>> I am very interested in seeing how many Brazilian universities would
>> be interested in getting observational and satellite imagery data
>> delivered in near realtime over the incipient IDD-Brazil.  Do you
>> have any insight into this?
>> 
>> >Best regards,
>> >Waldenio Gambi
>> >Pre-Processing Team
>> >CPTEC/INPE
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Tom Yoksas
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