20010209: nids mosaic

>From: Mark Tucker <address@hidden>
>Organization: Lyndon State College
>Keywords: 200102091406.f19E6RL21294 NOAAPORT NIDS mosaics

Mark,

>We would like to use nids mosaic here at Lyndon.  After doing some
>searches, I don't seem to be able to figure out where this product would
>originate from and how we would get it (via ldm).

The most commonly used reflectivity composites were and remain those
you have to subscribe to from WSI Corporation, the so-called NOWrad (tm)
products.  NOAAPORT does have a 10 km RCM composite available that GEMPAK
can read (I have not written necessary server for McIDAS since I am
waiting for the high resolution product that will eventually be available).

>Could you point me in the right direction?  

If you are looking for the NOWrad products, then you need to subscribe
with WSI.  If you are interested in the RCMs in NOAAPORT, please let
us know and I will pass this along to Chiz.

On another topic.  Is cirrus still a Linux box, or did you reuse the
name for a Sun SPARC machine.  The reason I ask is that I am having
problems in the ADDE server for sounding data on Linux.  The problem
presents itself in both RH 6.x and 7.0, and I am looking to see if
any sites are running a different version and _not_ seeing problems.
I recall that you are/were running Debian, and I can successfully
do sounding plots using ADDE to cirrus.  The only thing I don't know
anymore is whether this is still a Debian Linux box.  If it is, can
you pass along specifics about the OS (kernel rev; C rev; etc)?  Also
if it is no longer a Linux box, can you tell me if you ever ran into
problmes doing Skew-Ts using UAPLOT when accessing the remote server
(remote server meaning a DATALOC for RTPTSRC would point to 
cirrus.lsc.vsc.edu, and not LOCAL-DATA or LOCALHOST).  Thanks in
advance.

Tom

.From address@hidden Fri Feb  9 08:33:30 2001
>Subject: Re: 20010209: nids mosaic 

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Unidata Support wrote:

> If you are looking for the NOWrad products, then you need to subscribe
> with WSI.  If you are interested in the RCMs in NOAAPORT, please let
> us know and I will pass this along to Chiz.

Thanks, I'll talk with WSI before deciding what I want to do.
 
> On another topic.  Is cirrus still a Linux box, or did you reuse the
> name for a Sun SPARC machine.  The reason I ask is that I am having
> problems in the ADDE server for sounding data on Linux.  The problem
> presents itself in both RH 6.x and 7.0, and I am looking to see if
> any sites are running a different version and _not_ seeing problems.

Cirrus is running Solaris 8 (x86).  Our clients are still running Debian. 
Overall, I've found that our ldm and related applications behave better
and more reliably on Solaris than they did on Linux.  

> I recall that you are/were running Debian, and I can successfully
> do sounding plots using ADDE to cirrus.  The only thing I don't know
> anymore is whether this is still a Debian Linux box.  If it is, can
> you pass along specifics about the OS (kernel rev; C rev; etc)?  Also
> if it is no longer a Linux box, can you tell me if you ever ran into
> problmes doing Skew-Ts using UAPLOT when accessing the remote server
> (remote server meaning a DATALOC for RTPTSRC would point to 
> cirrus.lsc.vsc.edu, and not LOCAL-DATA or LOCALHOST).  Thanks in
> advance.

I haven't noticed that problem in the past but that wouldn't be
something I come across very often.  Bill Fingerhut works with McIdas more
closely than I do and would be more likely to have noted a problem with
this.  I'll pass this question along to him as well.

Mark Tucker
Meteorology
Lyndon State College
address@hidden
http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu