Path: news.cs.tut.fi!news.funet.fi!sunic!pipex!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!alberta!ve6mgs!usenet From: gosset@pbr322.ceingebi.unam.MX (Guillermo Gosset) Newsgroups: rec.radio.info Followup-To: rec.radio.amateur.space Subject: WX FTP sites. Date: 23 Jun 94 18:22:40 GMT Lines: 65 Message-ID: References: Approved: rec-radio-info@ve6mgs.ampr.ab.ca. The following is a list of anonymous FTP sites where metereological images in GIF format can be found. 73 de Guillermo. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CLIMLIST Mailing Number 92-08-19 Forwarded From: USENET newsgroup sci.geo.meteorology Origin: ilana@ncar.ucar.edu ==Current weather GIFs via FTP== vmd.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.98] FTP: Change directory to "wx" and set transfer type to "binary". GOES-7 visible and IR imagery over the US and Mexico, and surface analyses over the US, are available. A script to retrieve GIFs automatically is available from the ncardata FTP area (see below). Also available in this directory are SPOTFREQ.DOC and CHASE-TV.DOC, lists of ham radio frequencies and TV stations which carry useful info for storm chasers, and a few other useful documents. uriacc.uri.edu [131.128.1.1] FTP: Change directory to "davet.195" and set transfer type to "binary". Images of the northeast US in GIF format from the afternoon passes of NOAA-11. (Provided by Dave Tetreault, DAVET@uriacc.uri.edu.) unidata.ucar.edu [128.117.140.3] FTP: Change directory to "images" and set transfer type to "binary". Weather radar summary map GIFS, surface maps for various places, a few soundings on skew-t log-p diagrams, GOES Hugo images (in subdirectory "images/hugo"). Surface maps include Europe and China. cumulus.met.ed.ac.uk FTP: Change directory to "images" and set transfer type to "binary". IR and visibal images of Europe from Meteosat, twice daily, in 1152 x 900 GIF format (size of Sun root window). The subdirectory "gifs" has smaller 3x daily images of the Nordic areas, the UK, and Europe. marlin.jcu.edu.au [137.219.16.14] FTP: GMS-4 images updated regularly for various Australian states, the entire country, and for regions/events of interest such as TOGA/COARE. The images are in a format designed for the package JCUMetSat but can be converted to GIF format using the ALCHEMY public domain software available at this site. ats.orst.edu [128.193.120.19] FTP: GOES IR and VIS images over North and Central America, plus a "floater" image which "could be anything." Also Oregon and US city forecasts. aurelie.soest.hawaii.edu [128.171.151.121] FTP: Sea-Surface-Temperature data (near-real-time) in "pub/avhrr/images". AVHRR images within the radius of reception of the university's HRPT station, approximately 5 S to 45 N and 125 W to 165 E. The processed images are available usually within 30 min. of NOAA-11 and NOAA-12 passages. Data are compressed binary in netCDF format (get documentation from unidata.ucar.edu, above) labelled by satellite name (n11/n12) and time. More info available from hrpt@hokulea.soest.hawaii.edu. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Guillermo Gosset, XE1RGL Instituto de Biotecnologia/U.N.A.M. email: gosset@132.248.32.1 Cuernavaca, Mexico. xe1rgl@amsat.org =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=