Re: QuikSCAT BUFR products

Stan,

Unidata has a newsletter, and in particular, a special version was
created to be handed out at he AGU meetings this week which includes the
QuikSCAT additions.

In addition to the GEMPAK release announcement, I have an examples
page which includes:
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/examples/QuikSCAT/index.html

I also note that in February, NWS will be adding DMSP SSM/I surface wind
products to NOAAPORT (DM12-04.05).

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 10:40, Stan Wilson wrote:
> Steve:  Do you have a newsletter (or similar vehicle) for communicating 
> to your users recent changes that are available to the version of 
> N-AWIPS/GEMPAK which Unidata distributes?  There are likely users of 
> yours who do not know that QuikSCAT data are on Noaaport, and that they 
> now have a capability to incorporate changes to their software package 
> that would enable them to work with those data.   At a minimum, your 
> users could be directed to the following website. 
> <http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/visit/qswinds.html>
> 
> And if they don't know of this data and capability, they won't be able 
> to help us document the impact that QuikSCAT can make to operational 
> forecasting, and the longer it will take for us to make the case for an 
> operational follow on.   Stan
> 
> Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> >Stan,
> >
> >I received the peices of information I needed to make the plots work
> >with the BUFR data. Stonie appears happy with the product I created.
> >I'm sure I'll continue to tweal the features over time, but I
> >consider this effort completed.
> >
> >Thanks for your interest and initiative!
> >
> >Steve Chiswell
> >Unidata User Support
> >
> >
> >On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 06:02, Stan Wilson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Steve and Stonie:  Shall I take this off the list of issues I am 
> >>tracking, or is there something that one of us needs to do?  Stan
> >>
> >>Stan Wilson wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Steve:  I want to be sure that you have what you need for Quikscat and 
> >>>Unidata, in the context of other such issues wrt Noaaport, before we 
> >>>"give up and declare success".  Do you have what you need, as well as 
> >>>the attention of those in charge of  the Unidata interface with 
> >>>Noaaport?  Has everyone delivered what he/she needs to?  Stan
> >>>
> >>>-------- Original Message --------
> >>>Subject:     Re: [Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Unidata and BUFR]]
> >>>Date:     Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:03:58 +0000
> >>>From:     Stonie Cooper <address@hidden>
> >>>Organization:     Planetary Data, Incorporated
> >>>To:     Stan Wilson <address@hidden>
> >>>CC:     Chiswell Steve <address@hidden>
> >>>References:     <address@hidden>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Stan - Steve C. has made things work - I've got an overlay of QuikSCAT 
> >>>on top of IR for the entire northern hemisphere - it looks great.  I 
> >>>believe he will be releasing the version that is QuikSCAT BUFR aware 
> >>>for general consumption very soon.
> >>>
> >>>Stonie
> >>>
> >>>On Monday 29 November 2004 00:35, Stan Wilson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>Steve and Stonie:  Is the issue resolved?  If not, I will be happy to
> >>>>get Leroy's attention, if that would be helpful.
> >>>>
> >>>>In any event, I owe him a reply.  Stan
> >>>>
> >>>>-------- Original Message --------
> >>>>Subject:  Re: Unidata and BUFR
> >>>>Date:  Fri, 26 Nov 2004 11:36:10 -0500
> >>>>From:  Leroy Spayd <address@hidden>
> >>>>Organization:  DOC/NOAA/NWS - National Weather Service
> >>>>To:  Stan Wilson <address@hidden>
> >>>>CC:  David Caldwell <address@hidden>
> >>>>References:  <address@hidden>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Stan,
> >>>>
> >>>>Has your questions been answered yet by NCEP??
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks LeRoy
> >>>>
> >>>>Stan Wilson wrote:
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Leroy:  I was visiting Steve Chiswell and Don Murray at Unidata this
> >>>>>past Friday, and he suggested that I contact you in your capacity 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>as the
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>NWS representative to the Unidata Users Committee.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Unidata is unable to decipher the BUFR format used to encode the 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>surface
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>wind vector data from NASA's QuikSCAT satellite; this data stream has
> >>>>>been inserted into the NOAAPort data stream within the past half year.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>For your information, NCEP has been operationally assimilating 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>QuikSCAT
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>winds with its own N-AWIPS for almost three years, and this wind 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>product
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>has already been the topic of a VISIT Training Session
> >>>>><http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/visit/qswinds.html>.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>While the BUFR format for QuikSCAT is compatible with AWIPS at the 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>WFOs,
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>it is incompatible with the version of N-AWIPS which Unidata makes
> >>>>>available to its member universities, as well as private sector users.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Here is my concern: how can the NWS derive benefit from Unidata's
> >>>>>university community if that community is unable to read the QuikSCAT
> >>>>>format and work with its wind products?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>We need an appropriate conversion or look-up table - with suitable
> >>>>>annotation - so that Steve can build into Unidata's version of 
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>N-AWIPS a
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>capability to read QuikSCAT winds off NOAAPort.  Are you able to help?
> >>>>>Thanks, Stan
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>      
> >>>