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001 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.  Sharing information -- NPMOC satellite archive
002 Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.  Fwd:
003 Michael Bath [mbath at ozemail.com.au]            The Australian weather page 6/9/99
004 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           The Australian weather page 6/9/99
005 Phil Bagust [paisley at cobweb.com.au]            The Australian weather page 6/9/99
006 Jimmy Deguara [jdeguara at ihug.com.au]           Mobile phone number??? Jimmy??

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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:29:07 +1000
From: Michael Scollay [michael.scollay at telstra.com.au]
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Laurier Williams wrote:
> 
> After the recent stir with FNMOC model output, I'd better check that
> these URL's are known to everyone:
> 
> IR full globe: http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/products/jtwc/archive/g5iwp/
> IR 45N to 45S: http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/products/jtwc/archive/jtgio/
> Vis full globe: http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/products/jtwc/archive/g5vwp/
> WV full globe: http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/products/jtwc/archive/wpwv/
> 
> Each carries 2 weeks of hourly (sometimes half-hourly) satpics in both
> gif and jpg format. They are large, but very useful if you want to
> study a short-term event like a thunderstorm!

Thanks Laurier...A word of caution though. As I've been archiving this
archive, so to speak (the IR full) from the link that NPMOC keep
symbolically-linked to the latest at;

http://www.npmoc.navy.mil/products/jtwc/GMSFull_ir2.jpg

since February 1999, I've discovered and developed some workarounds
for the following "problems";

1) Congestion at NPMOC usually clobbers images between 1430 and 1630
UTC. Occasionally (about once a week) they are all intact. Many times,
one just receives about half of the image and this is faithfully
reflected in NPMOC's archive. I discard such incomplete images
since they render Australia and surrounds ink black!

2) Internet congestion within Australia sometimes results in a loss
of or at best, very poor retrieval at unpredictable times. In the 
last week or so, this has diminished. However, one can faithfully
retreive such "lost" images from the NPMOC archive at another time.
I have a script which does this fairly automatically that I label
as "archive_recover".

3) On four occasions in the last 3 weeks, the NPMOC archive has
failed to archive many images which I have otherwise retrieved
with success from the symbolic link URL above. This is one reason
why my primary archive is that URL and my backup archive is the
NPMOC archive. Such a problem at NMPC is relatively new in my
experience (since 3 weeks ago) and only since the NPMOC archive
has gone back more than 4 days which they began about 3 weeks
ago.

Other NPMOC images, namely gmsd and gmsc IR images do not have
an archive at NPMOC, though one could obtain the primary IR
image from the JMA archive with a private 10Mbps satellite link.
Each primary archive image for GMS5 is over 80MB!

As for ASWA members, I archive gmsc, gmsd and gmsfull (as above).
If the gmsfull images prove to provide sufficient resolution, I'm
seriously thinking of dropping gmsc and gmsd from my archive.
This is largely because of unreliability and inconsistency within
retrieval from NMPOC. The absence of a suitable gmsc and gmsd
archive NPMOC makes such archive recovery impossible. Anyhow,
it is easy to provided customised cropping of gmsfull instead.
I might open another thread on this subject...

Michael Scollay       mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 10:44:33 +1000
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Jimmy Deguara wrote:
> 
> You know on our severe weather page, we get a lot of requests
> and comments etc etc. But some are .... well interesting
> Well we do have some creative people in this world.
> 
> Read below
> 
> Jimmy Deguara
> 
> > X-From_: marcbuj at total.net  Sun Sep  5 07:18:50 1999
> > From: "Marc Bujold" 
> > To: 
> > Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 17:16:41 -0400
> > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300
> >
> > hi my name is yves ( 29 years old ) am machiniste and i want a 
> > know if there anyone try anything to stop,hold or just make a 
> > search for making some kind of invention to stop tornado. i 
> > hope you can give some info cause am working on some thinny 
> > possible invention but i need to know every technical knowledge
> > on tornado i search and i get the rotation speed,foward speed 
> > but for the rest i did not found much!

My 6-year-old has the classic answer to this phenomena,
usually after he comes home from scripture at school...
He thinks that GOD is responsible and therefore should 
stop storms also. Needless to say, the seeds of a rational 
agnostic are already being laid in our children's questioning
minds...It seems to me that our educators from religious
groups are ill-equipped to deal with blatant interpretations
such as this....

Michael Scollay       mailto:michael.scollay at telstra.com.au
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From: Michael Bath [mbath at ozemail.com.au]
Subject: aus-wx: The Australian weather page 6/9/99
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There is a small piece on storm chasing in the column they have with the
weather page in todays Australian newspaper. I have not seen or read it
yet, but it was based on an interview with me early last week.

Michael


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Excellent stuff.

BTW  Grant said that even though I did not feature in the news they can 
easily make a documentary one time and use my interview on that. They have 
the rights to it.

Jimmy Deguara

At 19:39 6/09/99 +1000, you wrote:
>There is a small piece on storm chasing in the column they have with the
>weather page in todays Australian newspaper. I have not seen or read it
>yet, but it was based on an interview with me early last week.
>
>Michael
>
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>There is a small piece on storm chasing in the column they have with the
>weather page in todays Australian newspaper. I have not seen or read it
>yet, but it was based on an interview with me early last week.
>
>Michael

Yes, I read that! Congratulations!  Can we expect a record number of hits
on the ASWA site in the next few days?

Phil 'Paisley' Bagust
paisley at cobweb.com.au
www.cobweb.com.au/~paisley


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Yes yes Michael Bath, Jimmy has a mobile phone........finally!!!!!

The phone number is

0408 020 468

Jimmy Deguara

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