[Fwd: NOGAPS data availability?]

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Subject:        NOGAPS data availability?
Date:   Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:45:41 -0600
From:   Linda Miller <address@hidden>
To:     address@hidden
CC:     address@hidden, Jeff Weber <address@hidden>



Hi Mike,

We haven't talked for a long time, and it seems like we are waving at 
one another at the AMS Annual Meeting these days, but I hope things are 
going well for you.

As you know, Unidata has worked with FNMOC to make NOGAPS and COAMPS 
data available to the research and education community using Unidata LDM 
technology.  This has been a successful collaboration since 2000, but 
lately we are seeing very sporadic (if any at all) data availability.  
Several users have been contacting Unidata to find out what has happened 
to the data and server providing the data.  In the early days of this 
project, we worked with LCDR David Dimitriou, but more recently our 
contact has been Phil Sharfstein.  We haven't heard from Phil for some 
time, so perhaps he's moved on to a different assignment, because his 
emails are bouncing.  If there is a new focal point for the project, 
would you provide that information.

Could you tell us if FNMOC has made a decision not to provide this 
service to the academic community any longer, because we need to provide 
an announcement to the community that the data will no longer be 
available.  It has been very successful in the past, and the data have 
been used for important research and educational endeavors.   If there's 
something Unidata can do to assist FNMOC in setting up the server with 
Unidata's LDM again, please let us know. 

Thanks in advance, Mike!

Linda

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Linda Miller - address@hidden
Community Services, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690 


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Linda Miller - address@hidden
Community Services, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690