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.
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.
Hello LDM Users, After January 1, unencrypted NOAAPORT NEXRAD Level 3 data will be available via the Internet Data Distribution system. In a previous message we told you about our plan to distribute the NEXRAD data: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/receivingRadar.html In particular, we have drafted a new routing scheme for the NEXRAD data that uses only two tiers. It can be seen at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/idd/nexradFeed.html Please look there to see which first tier site you should use as your NEXRAD feed. Also, we have prepared a page to help you get the NEXRAD data. See http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/feedtypes/howto-nnexrad.html for detailed information about getting and using the data. Please proceed slowly in requesting NEXRAD data, because if you request all of the data as soon as it is available, there is a real possibility of overloading your own site as well as delaying data to other IDD sites, since the NEXRAD data is a significant increase in the number of products and volume of data already carried on the IDD. We recommend that sites start by requesting the NEXRAD floater feed and at most three other sites until we have a chance to evaluate and adjust the routing to balance the load among participating IDD sites. The encrypted, uncompressed data is currently available on the NEXRAD feed and is already flowing to several first tier sites. You can add your request line now to start receiving the data when it becomes available at your upstream feed. If you have any questions, please first read the information available. Many questions are answered there. If you can't find the answer to your question in the material we have provided, send email to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. We also want to express our appreciation to top-level source sites and first-tier sites for agreeing to participate in the NEXRAD data distribution, giving up some of their network bandwidth, computing resources, and time during the holiday season to reconfigure their LDMs to make NEXRAD data available to other IDD sites. In particular, we want to thank: Harry Edmon Eric Horst Eirh-Yu Hsie Mark Laufersweiler Bob Leche Jeff Masters Bill Noon Art Persons Pete Pokrandt Larry Riddle Jerry Robaidek Clint Rowe Gilbert Sebenste Paul Sirvatka Bryan White David Wojtowicz for their help. Wishing you all a wonderful new year with lots of good quality data! --Anne --Russ -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************
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