19990128: decoding GRIB files from NCEP FTP server

>From: "Robert R. Mullenax" <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199901290154.SAA11639

>Steve,
>
>I was there at your paper on NMC2 at the AMS conf, and the
>connection still did not ring with me.  I was interested in
>you paper but when I saw where the data was going I sort
>of thought that it was only for the high muckety-mucks(
>facetious of course) of research.  After reading your web page
>I don't see why we could not access the data for our stratospheric
>research purposes, bandwidth and computer resources allowing.
>
>What would we need to do to get access via IDD?  We would only
>be using the AVN, possibly the MRF.
>
>Thanks,
>Robert Mullenax
>

Robert,

The impetus for the project was to both facilitate access and
to expand the use of the data sets. Since you would be interested
in a subset, you would want to be on a leaf so you don't have
to have all the data passing through you.

Since we don't have a lot of sites right now, a feed might
be fairly far away. Can you send traceroutes to:
cyclone.atmo.arizona.edu
data3.atmos.uiuc.edu
profhorn.meteor.wisc.edu

From there we can see what kind of routes are possible.

I presume the other information regarding decoding from GRIB was
to your question.

Steve Chiswell