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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 10:46:12 -0700 (MST) From: John Snook <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Michael Voss <address@hidden>, John Snook <address@hidden>, address@hidden Subject: Re: noaaport header information Well, it's a two step process: The site that Jeff notes at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/dir_subset.shtml#ncf does only provide headers with no descriptions. Then one can get a brief description by decoding the header at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/hdecode.shtml But I agree with Peter, it would be nice to have a page that contains all headers with a brief description attached. John Colorado Research Associates address@hidden > > 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 >