19990412: is ASOS data part of the unidata IDD flow?

Teresa,

Most ASOS station reports are part of our data stream.
These stations report hourly observations in METAR format.
We also have perl decoders to store the data values from the
observations in NetCDF format.

If you know what stations your sites are co-located at, I can find out 
if their observations are transmitted- shouldn't be a problem.

Steve CHiswell
Unidata User support



>From: Teresa Van Hove <address@hidden>
>Organization: GST
>Keywords: 199904122132.PAA18104

>
>Hi Unidata,
>
>I've been working with someone at Stanford to get the FAA NSTB
>GPS data here at UNAVCO to process and make available to other
>nrt GPS users.  I want to process this data for PWV to expand
>the existing FSL GPS PWV network I process and as a preperation
>for Suomi net if it gets funded.  Stanford is not getting the
>met data from these sites, just the GPS data.  But after some
>web searching I've found that the met stations co-located at
>these sites are part of the ASOS network.  You include station
>information for ASOS sites on the UNIDATA web page so it looks
>like they may be part of the standard data stream you
>distribute.  
>
>If this is correct I would like to see about installing the
>latest LDM version on my desktop machine (we are using LDM to
>transfer some GPS files from U. Utah but its not the newest
>version.)  
>
>Can you verifiy if the ASOS data is part of the FOS or other
>standard NWS products? If so I'll corner Myron to help me get
>the newest LDM version installed.  Otherwise I guess I'll have
>to ftp directly from the weather.noaa.gov cpu; but I'd prefer to
>avoid doing this if possible because the ftp connection is
>really slow, so I think they are near the limit of their ftp
>bandwidth.
>
>Thanks,
>Teresa
>