New short-term HRS and DDPLUS raw feed archive (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:28:14 -0500
From: Pete Pokrandt <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: New short-term HRS and DDPLUS raw feed archive


Hi all,

I have managed to set up a small data archive, similar to the one
that UIUC used to run.  I'll be keeping hourly files for the 
DDPLUS and HRS feeds, such that you can just re-inject them into
your ldm (there's a HOWTO.TXT file on the site explaining how to
do that, otherwise if you have trouble I'd be happy to walk you 
through it).

Right now I'm planning to store the data for a day or two, depending
on how much disk space I can spare.  For now, I don't plan to
compress the files as UIUC used to, we'll see how that goes.
HRS wouldn't compress too much anyways, would it?  GRIB is pretty
non-redundant as it is.

As an aside, did the UIUC archive ever start up again?  I know
there were some disk and other problems that caused it to be
unavailable for some time, and as of recently I have not been
able to access it.  It'd be great to have a few such sites
out there..  Anyone interested in running a similar archive,
let me know and I'll be happy to show you what I'm doing.

Unidata Support: If you would please add this info to the data recovery
page on the Unidata web site, I would appreciate it.  Also, if there
are any other restrictions or disclaimers or whatever that should
be accessible from the site let me know.

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Licensed Unidata sites may access the archive via password
protected and IP restricted FTP to 

ProfHorn.aos.wisc.edu

using the user name 'iddftp' and a password.  

To request the password, please send email to address@hidden
with the following information:

Your name
Your email address
Your institution (i.e. UW-Madison Dept of AOS)
The IP address of the machine(s) from which you would
like access to the archive.  The ftp will NOT allow access
from hosts other than these IP's.  I would prefer this to be
a list of a few IP numbers, rather than an entire network.

Once connected, there is a HOWTO.txt file explaining how to
use the archived data, and a DDPLUS and HRS directory containing
the hourly feed files.  File names are of the form YYYYMMDDHH.DDPLUS
and .HRS.

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The first few files (prior to 2000061516 are kind of messed up. They
will work, but the way I was saving the data caused more than one hour's
worth of data to be in some of the files.  Files after this should be
correct, and contain all data that was received between 00 and 59
after the HH.

I expect a deluge of access requests over the next day or two, so it may
take me a bit to address all of them.

Hope this helps many of you out at some time or another, I know we
were saved many times by the former UIUC archive.

Pete


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