Re: 20040401: getiing archival data from ssec and ncdc

> Hi ,
>
> Good morning. 
>
> Some of the students here ( @ western Michigan University ) wanted 
> some archival data to be viewed on IDV for their academical 
> projects. So the students were suggested to contact 
> http://www.ssec.wisc.edu and www.ncdc.noaa.gov for the archival data.
>
> The students have started requesting for the data. One student did 
> request for some data and the following is the reply that she had 
> got from them.
>  
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> I have contacted them for clarifications too. I thought I could 
> contact you too to find out what exactly needs to be done to get 
> images in netCDF format to be viewed on IDV.
>
>  
Humm, looks like some text format not imagery in netcdf. I'm not sure 
what formats ncdc provides.
What kind of data was your student expecting from ncdc?

-Jeff