Re: data agreements

Hi Joanne:

We no longer have a contract with WSI, but apparently someone else does 
and they feed the composite to you through our machine.  If this is the 
composite that you want to use -- then no, that is NOT okay, apparently 
very illegal (according to our support guys, I havn't seen the new 
contract with . . . whoever holds that??). Unidata has it's own 
composite, however, which we create from freely available data.  In 
fact, someone in RAP (Greg?) already receives this.   This composite you 
would be free to use however you'd like with the disclaimer that if 
anything bad happens because you are using our data, it isn't our 
problem because we expressly claim that our stuff is not for operation use.

Does this help?

I've copied Linda Miller and support on this in case I've missed 
something. 

Joanne


Joanne Dunnebecke wrote:

> Hi Joanne,
> I believe we get WSI radar mosaics through Unidata.  A question has 
> now come
> up as to whether we can redistribute those mosaics to the National 
> Weather
> Service's Weather Forecast Office in Dallas/Fort Worth where we're 
> running a
> field program.  Can you please check and let me know?  Thanks a lot!
> Hope all's well with you...
> Joanne

> From address@hidden  Mon Feb 28 13:27:23 2005

Thanks, Joanne, that's very helpful.  I assumed the answer would be 
"no", but
it's great to think that there is a product we could redistribute.  Let 
me check
with Cindy and see if using the Unidata composite would work for this 
project.
Joanne