ACARS & AMDAR International Data Available via LDM

Tom,
Linda M. sent this along.  I'm assuming you have new decoders 
for McIDAS.  This is great news.  I have several Atmospheric
Grads doing work on a global scale.  Usually, using GRADS
and netCDF packaged data. India, Malay Peninsula and Africa
(Affrican Wave Phenonmenon) are some examples, so this is a
nice addition.    
                                jdm
"Please contact Unidata support (address@hidden) for 
information on decoders for use of ACARS with Unidata-supplied 
application packages."




Orig Message:

ACARS and AMDAR International Data now Available via LDM

New software has been implemented that includes worldwide AMDAR data, in 
addition to the ACARS data from the Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL) in 
Boulder, Colorado.  The AMDAR data primarily cover Europe, Australia, and SE 
Asia;  very few (or no) AMDAR data occur over the contiguous US.

The data are now being made available via the LDM.  With the addition of the 
AMDAR data, FSL is now processing about 98,000 observations per day,
worldwide.

The data are also available through the FSL ACARS Web pages, and netCDF files 
downloaded from the FSL Web. The world maps available in the non-java display 
show this data, and, allow users to generate soundings.  A world map is not
yet 
available for the java display.

For detailed information on the data sets, how to obtain the data, and the 
restrictions on their use, please refer to the FSL ACARS web page:

http://acweb.fsl.noaa.gov/FAQ.html

Please contact Unidata support (address@hidden) for information on 
decoders for use of ACARS with Unidata-supplied application packages.

Linda Miller - address@hidden
External Liaison, Unidata
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303 497-8646 fax: 303-497-8690
URL:  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/lmiller/un.act.html


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