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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:42:25 -0600 (CST) From: David Wojtowicz <address@hidden> To: Dan Vietor <address@hidden> address@hidden Subject: RE: noaaport header information On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Dan Vietor wrote: > > Peter, such a product would be great! We put that on our > > wish list at the UNIDATA ATAC meeting three years ago as > > something the community would like to see. > > Lets face it, there is no reason to do this at this point. The reason > is that most of the WMO headers NWS uses are in a state of change as > they slowly move to the WMO standard. I've gotten too frustrated trying > to write public product extraction programs. So you want a daily > summary. One month its CSUS2 and the next is CDUS24. And the migration > for all WFO takes 6 months to complete. Putting a list together today > would become obsolete in a month. If the weather service speeds up the > migration to WMO and solidifies the headers, then a list like this could > be of great use. Now, its just too much of a moving target. > One would presume that someplace whoever keep switching these headers at NWS has a "master-plan" (presumably more detailed than those horribly uninformative WordPerfect documents) -------------------------------------------------------- David Wojtowicz, Research Programmer/Systems Manager Department of Atmospheric Sciences Computer Services University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign email: address@hidden phone: (217)333-8390 --------------------------------------------------------