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>From: James Frysinger <address@hidden> >Organization: College of Charleston >Keywords: 200202210415.g1L4Fbx02565 McIDAS dataflow Jim, Sorry I couldn't respond to this sooner, but things have been pretty hectic around here lately. >I presented a briefing in an undergraduate meteorology class last week and >for that I kluged together this dataflow chart. I used this to briefly >describe the data ingestion and the ways a user (not administrator) can >interact with the suite of software. > >I'm sure that I've probably got some stuff wrong, but you had commented >earlier that you were thinking of doing something along this line. So, here's >something for you to take a look at. Perhaps it will be useful, if for no >other reason than to show what I thought that a user would see as being of >interest on such a chart. Very nice! I put the image in a publically viewable place instead of keeping it in our inquiry tracking system: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/tom/gifs/sv3953955.gif Thanks for sending the image along! It has good food for thought. By the way, for fun check out the NEXRCOMP dataset on one of the following machines: adde.ucar.edu, papagayo.unl.edu, or atm.geo.nsf.gov: DATALOC ADD NEXRCOMP papagayo.unl.edu DSINFO IMAGE NEXRCOMP IMGDISP NEXRCOMP/6KN0R-NAT LINELE=250 400 PLACE=C EU=BREF REFRESH='EG;MAP H;BAR SU=BREF' This dataset will go public after I finish tweaking some stuff and get it setup on the set of cooperating ADDE servers that are currently serving GINI satellite data (as I write this it is not yet setup on the atm.geo.nsf.gov machine, but I will be addressing that this afternoon). What do you think? Tom