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Re: comet tape

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  • Subject: Re: comet tape
  • Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 09:29:39 -0600 (MDT)
Hi Mike, 

Sorry to hear of your difficulties with the tapes. Sometimes magnetic tape
is not the most reliable medium for data exchange, we are exploring CD and
DVD options. I would like to remind you that ALL of the datasets are
available via ftp on an individual basis, the tape is a nice way to save
time and get the complete dataset, but if it is not working for us, there
is always the ftp option.

For Hurricane Floyd (COMET Case ccs020), the url is:

http://www.joss.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/codiac/ds_proj?COMET_CASE_020

From here select the dataset you desire and where you want it sent, or you
can pick it up via anonymous ftp whichever you prefer. After completing
the form and including your e-mail address the data should be sent or made
availble for you to retrieve.

PLease let me know if you have any difficulties, we strive to make this a
easy process.

Thank you for using the COMET Case Study Library, 

-Jeff
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Jeff Weber
Unidata/NWS-COMET Case Study Library
University Corp for Atmospheric Research

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PH:303-497-8676   
URL--http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber
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On Tue, 9 May 2000, Lia Pennington wrote:

> 
> Mike,
> 
> Although I get no I/O errors with the tape, maybe our copy of
> the tape is bad.
> I can probably put it on our ftp site if it is not too large.
> I'll let you know later today.
> 
> Out of curiosity, what kind of tape drives do you have (Exabyte
> 8200, 8500, 8505)?
> 
> -Lia
> _____________________________________________________________________
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> _____________________________________________________________________
> 
> > Hi Lia,
> > 
> > I received the tape you sent and believe it or not this tape seems to be
> > corrupted
> > about a 1/2 of the way through similar to the 1st tape I received.  It's
> > really strange
> > because it reads off a good portion of the model data and then comes
> > back with a
> > tape error.  Again, I tried on two different tape drives with the same
> > result.  At this
> > point what I am really in need of is the satellite and radar imagery for
> > the case.  I have
> > model data and surface obs from my own archives here.  Is there any way
> > that I can
> > ftp the sat and radar from you or someone there without having to deal
> > with another
> > tape??
> > 
> > thanks for your time and help,
> > Mike
> > 
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