Hi Jerry,
Here's a note received from NWS today.
Linda
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REQUEST NO. RADAR.7
LINDA,
THE PLAN IS TO REMOVE THE ENCRYPTION OF THE NOAAPORT RADAR PRODUCTS NO LATER
THAN JANUARY 10, 2001. THE URL ADDRESS FOR THE RADAR WEB PAGE IS AS FOLLOWS:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/rpccds.html
CLICK ON NOAAPORT PRODUCTS. ALSO SEE THE FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE BELOW.
NOUS40KWBC 061549
FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1822 NOVEMBER 6... 2000
ATTENTION FAMILY OF SERVICES SUBSCRIBERS/NOAAPORT USERS
SUBJECT COMPRESSED TEST RADAR PRODUCTS NOW AVAILABLE
ON NOAAPORT
THIS IS A FOLLOW UP TO FOS/NOAAPORT NOTICE NO. 1708
DATED JUNE 15... 2000.
AFTER THE JANUARY 1... 2001 TERMINATION OF THE NEXRAD
INFORMATION DISSEMINATION SERVICE /NIDS/ AGREEMENT...
THE NWS WILL BEGIN BROADCASTING RADAR PRODUCTS OVER
NOAAPORT WITHOUT DATA ENCRYPTION AND IN A COMPRESSED
FORMAT /COMPRESSION FORMAT DETAILS BELOW/. TO ALLOW
NOAAPORT USERS TO PREPARE AND TEST THEIR SYSTEMS FOR
THIS CHANGE... NWS HAS BEGUN BROADCASTING OVER NOAAPORT
THE FOLLOWING SIX WSR-88D PRODUCTS FOR LA CROSSE...
WISCONSIN /ARX/ IN THE UNENCRYPTED... COMPRESSED FORMAT
NEXRAD WMO HEADER PRODUCT
HEADER
19/R SDUS53 KARX BASE REFLECTIVITY - 124 NMI
RANGE
N0RARX /LOWEST ELEVATION ANGLE/
27/V SDUS53 KARX BASE RADIAL VELOCITY - 124 NMI
RANGE
N0VARX /LOWEST ELEVATION ANGLE/
37/CR SDUS53 KARX COMPOSITE REFLECTIVITY - 16
LEVELS...
NCRARX 124 NMI RANGE
56/SRM SDUS53 KARX STORM RELATIVE MEAN RADIAL
VELOCITY
N0SARX /LOWEST ELEVATION ANGLE/
57/VIL SDUS53 KARX VERTICAL INTEGRATED LIQUID
NVLARX
80/STP SDUS53 KARX SURFACE RAINFALL ACCUMULATION-
NTPARX STORM TOTAL
THE RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION ALGORITHM USED IS BASED
ON THE ZLIB COMPRESSION LIBRARIES. THESE LIBRARIES AND
DESCRIPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING WEB ADDRESS
FTP/COLON///FTP.FREESOFTWARE.COM/PUB/INFOZIP/ZLIB
A DOCUMENT DESCRIBING THE RADAR PRODUCT COMPRESSION
APPROACH IS ACCESSIBLE UNDER THE WHAT S NEW HEADING
ON THE NOAAPORT HOME PAGE... ADDRESS
HTTP/COLON///WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/NOAAPORT/HTML/NOAAPORT.SHTML
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
MR. MICHAEL CARELLI... NWS NIDS ADMINISTRATOR
AT 301-713-1724 EXT. 184
OR EMAIL MICHAEL.CARELLI/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV
END
JULIE
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