On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Doug Lindholm wrote:
> Any suggestions on how to answer a question like this? Any tool
> recommendations?
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: data products covering deep south
> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:11:01 -0500 (EST)
> From: Beth A Plale <plale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> To: Doug Lindholm <lind@xxxxxxxx>
> CC: Nithya Nirmal Vijayakumar <nvijayak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Beth A
> Plale <plale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ying Liu <yingliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> In an ongoing streaming project we are trying to characterize the
> flows of data that cover the region outlined by the bounding box:
>
> west - Brownsville, TX,
> east - Mobile, Alabama,
> south - 80 miles south into the Gulf,
> north - Louisiana's northern boundary.
doug,
if they send me the degrees of the above locations, i'll send them a url
to get the Metar station names in the bounding box. currently this will
only work for Metar stations
robb...
>
> We know from talking to Carl Sinclair what Level II and Level III radars
> cover that region, but are now looking for similar info for Metars, Acars,
> Rawinsondes, Eta, and GOES.
>
> Is there someone there, perhaps you, that could give us an idea of the
> number of sources providing data on that region? For instance, there are
> 5 GOES sources according to info we gathered earlier (from Anne's
> compilation.) If the satellites are stationary, then the sources covering
> the deep south region might be 3 of the 5. Eta might be divided out into
> 1 source doing the east US, and one doing the west US (I have no idea what
> is really done), so the deep south is covered by one source.
>
> Metars, 1st order: 270 sources
> Metars, 2nd order: 1000 sources
> Rawinsondes: 94 sources
> ACARS: 257 sources
> GOES: 5 sources
> Eta: 2 sources
>
> thanks a bunch!
>
> beth
>
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Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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