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Hi Marty, I have been following your exchange with Yuan regarding WSI NOWRAD composite imagery, and I have a couple of questions and comments/suggestions... In your first email, you said: > There is no other > data source for archived composite radar, to my knowledge, so it is important > to me to > get this going. I have not seen any email to address@hidden recently, so I don't know if you have pinged the Unidata user community on the availability of an archive of Unidata-created NEXRAD Level III base reflectivity composite imagery. I have a feeling that Daryl Herzmann of Iowa Sate may have an archive of these images that he would be willing to share with you. Please contact Daryl to see if this is, in fact the case: Daryl Herzmann <address@hidden> The other thing is that Unidata McIDAS contains ADDE server support for WSI NOWRAD imagery (I wrote that server, so I know that it exists and is viable). If Central Michigan still has a McIDAS installation somewhere (it used to), it could be configured to serve your NOWRAD data. The setup would require that you configure that McIDAS installation for remote access (very easy, but requires 'root' privilege). The imagery would then be accessible to the IDV via the Data Choosers -> Sat & Radar -> Images sequence. Final comment: if your NOWRAD data holdings are "reasonably sized" and unchanging (i.e., you have an "archive" set you want to use for a particular study), then we could host the imagery on one of our servers and create an ADDE dataset of the data that you could then access in the same way that you would access any satellite or radar imagery. We can not promise to host this data in perpetuity, of course; we could make it accessible for a reasonably long period of time. Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: FIJ-111081 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open