Re: noaaport header information (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:37:56 -0700
From: Peter Neilley <address@hidden>
To: Jeff Masters <address@hidden>
     John Snook <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: Re: noaaport header information

Jeff et al:

The site you reference only lists the headers as far as I know.  What John was
looking for, I believe,
is not only the headers, but a description of what is contained under each 
header.
Frankly, I don't think what John is looking for exists.  The NOAAPORT pages 
that an
earlier
poster mentioned, refer to the Appendix K documents (Word Perfect Spreadsheets 
with
data
content information).  However, it really requires alot of extra work and
cross-referencing to relate that info in those 20-or-so Spreadsheets to get
after what John (and so many others) really want to know.

In my opinion, the ideal document would be an alphabetical listing of 
NOAAPORT/WMO
headers, each with a one-or-two sentence  description of the content expected 
to be
found under that
header.   It would probably be sufficient to have the listing broken down only 
by
the
first 6 chars (e.g. by the SAUS80 part) and if there are sufficient differences 
in
the
content by the rest of the header (e.g. if SAUS80 KWBC is significantly 
different
than SAUS80 KABC)
then the description could point this out.

The one thing that comes closest to this is the Alden FOS catalog:

    http://www.alden.com/foscat.txt

but it was first published ~ 10 years ago, and it has not been kept up to date. 
 An
up-to-date
version of that would be almost the ideal document.

If anyone knows of an up-to-date such document be sure to let John, me and the 
rest
of the community know.

Peter Neilley, NCAR/RAP
address@hidden
303-497-8446




Jeff Masters wrote:

> http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/dir_subset.shtml#ncf
>
> has the list of all products.
>
> Jeff
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> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Michael Voss wrote:
>
> > John,
> >
> > I'm not sure if the information is on the NOAAPORT page, if not it should 
> > be:
> >
> > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/noaaport/html/noaaport.shtml
> >
> > or in the reference section:
> >
> > http://www.nws.noaa.gov/noaaport/html/refs.shtml
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > At 03:36 PM 2/28/00 -0700, John Snook wrote:
> > >
> > >Does anybody know of a web site, or some other source, that
> > >contains a master list of possible noaaport (channel 1)
> > >headers and their meanings.
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >
> > >John Snook
> > >Colorado Research Associates
> > >address@hidden
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > --------------------------
> > Mike Voss
> > Department of Meteorology
> > San Jose State University
> > One Washington Square
> > San Jose, CA 95192-0104
> >
> > 408.924.5204 voice
> > 408.924.5191 fax
> >