19991012: ACARS Data

>From: "Mark J. Laufersweiler" <address@hidden>
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>Keywords: 199910121712.LAA03659

>Support (Steve and Robb), 
>
>One observation (gemapk5.4) and one question (ldm), both dealing
>with the acars data stream.
>
>1. Observation: Having downloaded the latest gempak and building it,
>I noticed that the dcacars decoder was not part of the build. I had
>to go into its directory and build it there manually. Not sure if
>this is a feature or bug :-)

This is a feature. Building dcacars and dcncprof requires that you
first build netcdf and define those library locations in
$NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.common. Since not all sites will get these data
streams, I did not want to make building the core portion of Gempak
contingent on having NetCDF.


>
>2. Question: Whom do we set to request from for our feedset PCWS? OU
>is currently feeding from thelma for the FSL2 feedset. I may be
>jumping the gun here and the feed is not yet active. 

You have to contact FSL directly for them to feed the PCWS to you.
See their www page at: http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/FAQ.html.

They have a couple of restrictions on use of the data, so FSL
will maintain feed control. Here is the original announcement 
for ACARS from Linda miller:

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From: Linda Miller <address@hidden>
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:23:57 -0600
Subject: 19990614: ACARS Data Available
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All,

ACARS (Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System) data
are now available for research and educational uses to the Unidata
university community from NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)
using point-to-point LDM technology.

These data can be useful in a multitude of applications including
modeling, aviation and weather research, and training purposes.  In
return for the data, participating airlines are hoping to gain
additional information on the use of the data through scientific papers
presented at symposia such as the AMS and AGU annual meetings, etc.

For detailed information on the data sets, how to obtain the data, and
the restrictions on their use, please refer to the FSL ACARS web page:

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/FAQ.html

Please contact Unidata support (address@hidden) for
information on decoders for use of ACARS with Unidata-supplied
application packages.


Linda Miller

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>Thanks.
>
>mjl
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Steve Chiswell