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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Michal Kraszewski wrote:
> Anne,
>
> Thanks a lot for your information. I'm familiar with Level III NEXRAD data
> that are provided by NCDC (in NIDS format) but since I need data that are
> more recent than those from NCDC (they have two - three days delay) I decided
> to switch to UNIDATA data. The only difference in data from UNIDATA and NCDC
> is that those from UNIDATA are compressed with ZLIB compression.
>
> I found ucnids.c and it seems to be perfect for me.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Michal Kraszewski
> _____________________________
> IIHR-Hydroscience and Engineering
> The University of Iowa
>
Michal,
Glad to hear you've found what you need. If you need help installing an
LDM or getting an upstream feed, please contact address@hidden.
Although, if Brian is getting the NEXRAD data I assume you'll get it from
him...
Anne
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