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> Hello, Hi Jacob, > > My name is Jacob Wolf and I work for the Idaho Department of Environmental > Quality. I wanted to confirm as to with we would be able to utilize LDM and > IDD with GEMPAK/NTL to display NOAA data. I understand that certain products > would not be available to me as I am not affiliated with a higher education > place of learning. > What "kind" of NOAA data are you hoping to ingest and display? All GOES imagery, ship and buoy reports, surface obs, etc.. are easily ingested/available via the IDD/LDM and are easily displayed in GEMPAK. As are all the model output from NCEP... > Secondly, if we are able to do so, I wanted to see if you had any > recommendations for disk space requirements. > That would depend greatly on what data you wish to ingest and how long you wish to keep it, if we knew more about this we could give you a more informed response. Hopefully this is enough to seed the conversation further :) > Thank you in advance for your help, > > -- > Jacob Wolf > Air Quality Meteorologist > Idaho Department of Environmental Quality > 1410 North Hilton > Boise, ID 83706 > Phone: 208-373-0480 > > > Cheers, Jeff Jeff Weber Unidata User Support http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RNR-214402 Department: Support IDD Priority: Normal Status: Open