Samples

These samples illustrate some of the features that are described in detail in other sections of this document. They are taken directly from our live test system. (See also the ``Screenshots'' section for related illustrations.)

• The raw data directory where the incoming files are saved.
• The text directory where the text files processed by the rstfilter are saved.
• The rad directory where the radar images generated by the rstfilter are saved.
• The satellite images directory where the image files processed by the rstfilter are saved.
• The gempak data directory where the files processed by the gpfilter are saved in a format compatible with the gempak tools.
• The digatmos data directory where the files processed by the dafilter are saved, in a form suitable for import by the Digital Atmosphere program.
• The grib directory where the files processed by the gribfilter are saved, in a form suitable for use by GrADS. The gribfilter can in addition be configured to create plots automatically.
• Sample plots created with Gempak.
• Sample plots created with Digital Atmosphere.
• Sample plots created with GrADS.
• Sample hurricane tracks created with GrADS.

Test drives

• This live system has the built-in emwin server enabled. As it is a test system, it is not meant to be used as a permanent server, but temporary incoming connections for testing are accepted and welcomed. It is at

  emwin.opennoaaport.net:2211

• An inn news gateway server is setup at

  news.opennoaaport.net

  serving a subset of the files. If you are on a windows or Mac, most browsers and/or email programs have a news reader. Simply configure it with our server as the nntp server. The noaaport news groups have the names noaaport.kkkk where kkkk are the station initials. Again this is not meant to be a permanent production news server but temporary access for testing is welcomed.
• A demo email gateway is setup, in which files tagged as ``URGENT'' are sent to the susbcribers of a list. You can test it by subscribing to the email list
• Digital Atmosphere and GRlevel3 users can use the URL

  http://www.opennoaaport.net/digatmos/nexrad

  for radar files. In addition, Digital Atmosphere users can use

  http://www.opennoaport.net/digatmos/surface/20@Y@M@D@H.sao

  for surface data, similarly for other data types, and GRlevel3 users can use

  http://www.opennoaaport.net/digatmos/warnings

  for warnings.

Notice that these facilities are enabled during the package installation, and usable ``out-of-the-box'', using the built-in web server, without further configuration.

Featured sites

• Corsicana radar facility. In addition to all the buit-in facilities, Nbsp makes it just as simple to use external scripts, as this site shows.