[IDD #QTY-167283]: data feed

Hi Bobby,

re: where are you located
> greeneville tn

OK.

> i'm amture meteorlogist, plus i take rainfall measurements
> for nws and i'm a ema volunteer, i have a weather station,
> i have my own web page http://greenevilleweather.net

OK.

> penn state is alright, but like to have all the models and satellite and 
> radar.
> that's what i'm looking for?

My previous comment still holds:  Penn State is one of the top level
relay nodes for data flowing in the IDD.  By this I mean that they
_have_ all of the model data, all of the satellite data, and all
of the radar data.  Art's concern was that your broadband Internet
connection would likely not be able to handle all of this data, and
I would agree in principle.

The full suite of data flowing in the IDD is best illustrated by the
following real time IDD statistics listing for the data that is available
via the Penn State relay:

Data Volume Summary for ldm.meteo.psu.edu

Maximum hourly volume  11875.355 M bytes/hour
Average hourly volume   6090.258 M bytes/hour

Average products per hour     212518 prods/hour

Feed                           Average             Maximum     Products
                     (M byte/hour)            (M byte/hour)   number/hour
NEXRAD2                2230.144    [ 36.618%]     3211.188    60756.660
CONDUIT                1777.390    [ 29.184%]     5507.293    49197.220
NGRID                   656.709    [ 10.783%]     1025.174    15458.380
NEXRAD3                 400.446    [  6.575%]      497.226    33513.880
HDS                     228.410    [  3.750%]      481.509    18788.260
FNMOC                   195.984    [  3.218%]     1238.285     2042.660
NIMAGE                  160.161    [  2.630%]      338.640      183.940
FSL3                    148.790    [  2.443%]      240.512       35.760
FSL2                    109.747    [  1.802%]      186.737      271.540
FNEXRAD                  86.425    [  1.419%]      119.030       52.120
IDS|DDPLUS               33.012    [  0.542%]       39.296    30073.980
WSI                      24.339    [  0.400%]       33.306     1821.180
UNIWISC                  22.016    [  0.362%]       30.037       25.360
PCWS                      9.308    [  0.153%]       11.248       22.600
DIFAX                     3.446    [  0.057%]       12.277        4.680
GEM                       2.947    [  0.048%]       29.473      202.100
LIGHTNING                 0.983    [  0.016%]        2.024       67.320

As you can see from this listing, there is an average of ~6 GB/hour of
data available, and volumes can be as high as ~11.8 GB/hour.  For reference,
6 GB/hour is 13 Mb/second and 11.8 GB/hour is 26 Mb/second.

Given your desire for "all" data, you might consider the option of
installing a NOAAPort reception system at your house.  This would require
a large Cband satellite dish (3.8m or larger) a high quality PLL LNB,
a DVB-S converter (NOAAPort uses DVB-S broadcast), high quality coax
cable from the LNB to the DVB-S converter (e.g., quad shielded RG-6),
a PC running Linux or Solaris Unix that has two Ethernet interfaces,
and the software to ingest the NOAAPort datastream.  Satellite dishes
can sometimes be found for free (people getting rid of old installations),
but it is likely that you would have to purchase the PLL LNB.  You
would definitely have to purchase the DVB-S converter (we use the same
as the NWS, Novra S75), cabling and computer. The software for doing
the ingest can be gotten for free (we make our NOAAPort ingest software
available for free, but with the Big Boy warranty (i.e., do not expect
support from us)).

While installing and running a NOAAPort ingest site is not cheap, it
is likely to allow you to get more data than you could through a
commodity Internet connection.

The IDD datastreams that are populated by the NOAAPort broadcast are:

IDS|DDPLUS - global observational data
HDS        - lower resolution NCEP model output
NGRID      - higher resolution NCEP model output
NEXRAD3    - Nexrad Level III radar products
NIMAGE     - GOES satellite images

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket ID: QTY-167283
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed