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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: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:28:14 -0500 From: Pete Pokrandt <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: New short-term HRS and DDPLUS raw feed archive Hi all, I have managed to set up a small data archive, similar to the one that UIUC used to run. I'll be keeping hourly files for the DDPLUS and HRS feeds, such that you can just re-inject them into your ldm (there's a HOWTO.TXT file on the site explaining how to do that, otherwise if you have trouble I'd be happy to walk you through it). Right now I'm planning to store the data for a day or two, depending on how much disk space I can spare. For now, I don't plan to compress the files as UIUC used to, we'll see how that goes. HRS wouldn't compress too much anyways, would it? GRIB is pretty non-redundant as it is. As an aside, did the UIUC archive ever start up again? I know there were some disk and other problems that caused it to be unavailable for some time, and as of recently I have not been able to access it. It'd be great to have a few such sites out there.. Anyone interested in running a similar archive, let me know and I'll be happy to show you what I'm doing. Unidata Support: If you would please add this info to the data recovery page on the Unidata web site, I would appreciate it. Also, if there are any other restrictions or disclaimers or whatever that should be accessible from the site let me know. -------------------------------------------------------------- Licensed Unidata sites may access the archive via password protected and IP restricted FTP to ProfHorn.aos.wisc.edu using the user name 'iddftp' and a password. To request the password, please send email to address@hidden with the following information: Your name Your email address Your institution (i.e. UW-Madison Dept of AOS) The IP address of the machine(s) from which you would like access to the archive. The ftp will NOT allow access from hosts other than these IP's. I would prefer this to be a list of a few IP numbers, rather than an entire network. Once connected, there is a HOWTO.txt file explaining how to use the archived data, and a DDPLUS and HRS directory containing the hourly feed files. File names are of the form YYYYMMDDHH.DDPLUS and .HRS. -------------------------------------------------------------- The first few files (prior to 2000061516 are kind of messed up. They will work, but the way I was saving the data caused more than one hour's worth of data to be in some of the files. Files after this should be correct, and contain all data that was received between 00 and 59 after the HH. I expect a deluge of access requests over the next day or two, so it may take me a bit to address all of them. Hope this helps many of you out at some time or another, I know we were saved many times by the former UIUC archive. Pete -- +>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+ ^ Pete Pokrandt V 1447 AOSS Bldg 1225 W Dayton St^ ^ Systems Programmer V Madison, WI 53706 ^ ^ V address@hidden ^ ^ Dept of Atmos & Oceanic Sciences V (608) 262-3086 (Phone/voicemail) ^ ^ University of Wisconsin-Madison V 262-0166 (Fax) ^ +<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>+