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Re: noaaport header information (fwd)


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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 11:11:35 -0700
From: Linda Miller <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, Jeff Masters <address@hidden>
     John Snook <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: Re: noaaport header information

Hi All,

At the NWS Partners Workshop last April (see:
http://205.156.54.206/im/imup0200.htm), this issue was raised as a
recommendation to the NWS.  Again, this month during a NOAA Priorities and
Planning Workshop, it was raised again.  This is an issue that Unidata's Users
Committee, on behalf of the university and research community, along with
private industry, have asked for on several occasions.  In fact, the FOS
catalog was an example that I provided for the NWS at the Partners Workshop.
It is an enormous task, but one that is of increasing importance to all users
of data and products.  I will be following this issue very closely!  

Thanks,
Linda

--On Tue, Feb 29, 2000 5:37 PM -0700 Peter Neilley <address@hidden> wrote:

> Jeff et al:
> 
> The site you reference only lists the headers as far as I know.  What John was
> looking for, I believe,
> is not only the headers, but a description of what is contained under each
> header. Frankly, I don't think what John is looking for exists.  The NOAAPORT
> pages that an earlier
> poster mentioned, refer to the Appendix K documents (Word Perfect
> Spreadsheets with data
> content information).  However, it really requires alot of extra work and
> cross-referencing to relate that info in those 20-or-so Spreadsheets to get
> after what John (and so many others) really want to know.
> 
> In my opinion, the ideal document would be an alphabetical listing of
> NOAAPORT/WMO headers, each with a one-or-two sentence  description of the
> content expected to be found under that
> header.   It would probably be sufficient to have the listing broken down
> only by the
> first 6 chars (e.g. by the SAUS80 part) and if there are sufficient
> differences in the
> content by the rest of the header (e.g. if SAUS80 KWBC is significantly
> different than SAUS80 KABC)
> then the description could point this out.
> 
> The one thing that comes closest to this is the Alden FOS catalog:
> 
>     http://www.alden.com/foscat.txt
> 
> but it was first published ~ 10 years ago, and it has not been kept up to
> date.  An up-to-date
> version of that would be almost the ideal document.
> 
> If anyone knows of an up-to-date such document be sure to let John, me and
> the rest of the community know.
> 
> Peter Neilley, NCAR/RAP
> address@hidden
> 303-497-8446
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff Masters wrote:
> 
>> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/dir_subset.shtml#ncf
>> 
>> has the list of all products.
>> 
>> Jeff
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>> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Michael Voss wrote:
>> 
>> > John,
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure if the information is on the NOAAPORT page, if not it should
>> > be:
>> > 
>> > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/noaaport/html/noaaport.shtml
>> > 
>> > or in the reference section:
>> > 
>> > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/noaaport/html/refs.shtml
>> > 
>> > Hope that helps,
>> > 
>> > Mike
>> > 
>> > At 03:36 PM 2/28/00 -0700, John Snook wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Does anybody know of a web site, or some other source, that
>> > > contains a master list of possible noaaport (channel 1)
>> > > headers and their meanings.
>> > > 
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > 
>> > > John Snook
>> > > Colorado Research Associates
>> > > address@hidden
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > --------------------------
>> > Mike Voss
>> > Department of Meteorology
>> > San Jose State University
>> > One Washington Square
>> > San Jose, CA 95192-0104
>> > 
>> > 408.924.5204 voice
>> > 408.924.5191 fax
>> > 
> 



Linda Miller - address@hidden
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