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20050322: 20050319: QuickScat data for Vietnam



Mai,

yes that was a type "130" mistyped as "103".
The only data available via IDD is that from NOAA's bufr data.

You can find data on JPL's Seawinds web site, in other formats.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport

>From: Mai Nguyen <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200503230103.j2N13Dv2019930

>Hi Steve,
>
>Thank you for your information. 
>
>> The regions of Quikscat winds currently available in
>> the data stream 
>> in BUFR fomat from NOAA only cover east of 103E
>> longitude as shown in 
>> Figure 3 in
>> http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/70665.pdf.
>
>Its coverage is east of 135E, not 103E. Do you know if
>there is any other source of Quickscat data (maybe not
>the BUFR format) that covers our region (up to 90E or
>100E)? And is it available through IDD?
>
>Thank you very much!
>
>Best regards, Mai
>
>>From address@hidden  Tue Mar 22 18:07:11 2005
>
>Hi Steve,
>
>Thank you for pointing me the source. I've tried to
>get some files. But I can't display it with NMAP2
>(we've got the GEMPAK5.7.4 now).
>
>I've checked the datatype.tbl to ensure that the ATCF
>entry points to the directory. But still can see
>nothing. Do you have any clue what should we do?
>
>Thank you again.
>
>Best regards, Mai
>
>--- Unidata Support <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> Mai,
>> 
>> The ATCF data that GEMPAK plots is available from
>> ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/atcf/aid_public/
>> 
>> I use the "wget" freely available perl script to
>> mirror/download
>> the files in a script like:
>> 
>>
>-------------------------------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/csh -f
>> 
>> setenv PATH /opt/bin:${PATH}
>> source ~gempak/Gemenviron
>> 
>> cd $SPDATA/atcf
>> wget -N
>>
>'ftp://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/pub/atcf/aid_public/a*2004.dat'
>> 
>>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> These files are not in the data stream broadcast via
>> IDD.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> Unidata User Support
>> 
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