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>From: Skeen Jim <address@hidden> >Organization: NTSB >Keywords: 200205311207.g4VC7dp19671 Jim, >I will be copying Base Reflectivity products from SRX and INX in support of >the I-40 bridge collapse over the Arkansas River on May 26. In case you weren't on the announcement that was sent to sever of the email lists that we maintain, I offer the following: We are creating composites of the NEXRAD Level III Base Reflectivity (N0R) products about every 6 minutes. These 1 km and other composites are available in the ADDE dataset NEXRCOMP from the same machine you are currently accessing the N0R products. The set of composites is not as long as the NEXRALL set ones, but it it may be useful for spotting events whose scale is greater than the coverage of an individual radar. Since the composites are to be considered experimental, they should not be used for operational or forensic purposes. They are, however, useful for identifying regions of activity, and determining which individual NEXRADs to look at. For best viewing in McIDAS, you should download the new and reworked enhancements for the composites. These can be found in the pub/mcidas/data directory of anonymous FTP on our FTP server, ftp.unidata.ucar.edu. I just thought that you might like to take a look... >Thanks for the support. Please let us know what you think of the NEXRCOMP imagery. >Regards, JIm > >James Skeen >Senior Meteorologist >National Transportation Safety Board >490 L'Enfant Plaza, Washington, DC 20594 >Ph. 202.314.6356 Fax 202.314.6339 >E-mail address@hidden Tom Yoksas **************************************************************************** < Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program < (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 < address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 < ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- < Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ < **************************************************************************** <