20020823: Unidata-Wisconsin datastream archive

>From: Luis M Farfan <address@hidden>
>Organization: CICESE - BCS
>Keywords: 200208231607.g7NG7qK14019 Unidata-Wisconsin archive

Hi Luis,

First, Jeff Weber is setting you up with a primary and secondary IDD
feed site at this moment.  He will contact you with details.

>This note is to find if our institution, CICESE in Mexico, is allowed to 
>have access to the historical
>dataset  from the Unidata-Wisconsin datastream archive.

Yes, you will be.  I have more information below.

>I am familiar with the procedure to request and retrieve this data. 
>However, I want to:
>    1) make sure if we can be treated as a licensed Unidata site, and
>    2) we know the login name and password account on /gold.ssec.wisc.edu/ .

You should be treated as a fully licensed Unidata site.  If there are any
snags, I will work to resolve them.

>Our access to the dataset will be occasional and focused on the 
>GOES/satellite imagery for recent
>weather events over northwestern Mexico. We will be using GEMPAK for the 
>image display and analysis.

OK, This sounds good.

Now, here is the bad news and then more good news.

The Unidata-Wisconsin product generation machine experienced a catastropic
failure at the beginning of the summer.  Duties for generating the UW
stream were moved to gold.ssec.wisc.edu as you already know.  Near-realtime
data sent in the stream is available from gold in the manner that was
provided by the old machine that died.  Access to historical data, on
the other hand, has not been implemented on gold, so nobody can get at
that data.

The good news after the bad is that a new machine has just been installed
in the SSEC Data Center (a machine owned by Unidata).  This machine
(which was turned on yesterday afternoon) will take over the UW datastream
preparation activities AND access to near realtime and archived data.
When this service will be available is not yet known, but it should
be within the next month.

>Sincerely,
>Luis M Farfan
>CICESE - Physical Oceanography
>La Paz, Mexico.

Tom