(forwarded to the list for Matthew Lazzara)
Stu,
Hello! It has recently come to my attention that you know of an Geon
IDV user who is looking into weather data sources over the Antarctic.
Our group is funded by the NSF Office of Polar Programs providing
such data to the community. We are not yet IDV users, but do offer a
fair bit of data via McIDAS ADDE of which many can be read into IDV.
There are several sources of data (our Antarctic satellite composites
are our trademark, along with other observations - radiosonde,
synoptics, METAR, etc., and especially our network of Automatic
Weather Stations, etc.) that will work with IDV. Additionally, we
are running an "IDD" for Antarctica - the Antarctic-IDD which uses
Unidata's LDM to provide a variety of meteorology data - model
output, satellite imagery, observations, etc.
Please see:
http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
Please have your Geon IDV user get in touch with me anytime and we'll
gladly assist as best as we can. I have used IDV some, but notice
that is has some limits - some things are not yet programmed yet into
it for capabilities, but we would be most curious to know what the
needs are of those interested.
Thank you!
Matthew
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Matthew Lazzara -Meteorologist- Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
947 Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
Space Science and Engineering Center E-mail: mattl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
University of Wisconsin-Madison Phone: (608) 262-0436
1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706 Fax: (608) 263-6738
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Tom Whittaker
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Space Science & Engineering Center (SSEC)
Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS)
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706 USA
ph: +1 608 262 2759
