HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: raghu@enh.nist.gov
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: RE: least likely to get a tremor
Date: 9 Oct 92 17:28:59 GMT
Organization: NIST

> least earth-quake activity areas.-----
Most likely the ones with a maximum chance of getting a hurricane, 
tornado, blizzard or flashfloods.
good luck,
raghu@enh.nist.edu
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: mfoster@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Marc Foster)
Subject: RE: The truth about earthquakes (and prediction)
Originator: news@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 05:23:01 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Keywords: You don't have to SHOUT the subject...
Followup-To: Anywhere but here


Did anyone actually try to read that jiberish?

Why is it I have this feeling Claire is gonna pop out and bop me on the
head with one of her dead palm trees and shout "APRIL FOOLS!"  The fact
it's October wouldn't bother her...

marc (guilty as charged for perpetuating another non-topical subject)
From: lockhart@mothra.nts.uci.edu (Jack C. Lockhart)
Subject: Re: THE TRUE CAUSE & ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES (AND THEIR PREDICTION)
Summary: OOPS!
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Keywords: ELF Monitoring, Earthquake Forecasting, Magnetic Fluctuations
Date: 15 Oct 92 05:02:15 GMT

In article <1bimhhINN9sl@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> okabe@unixg.ubc.ca (Ian Okabe) writes:
>excuse me but why was this posted to sci.geo.meteorology?
>-- 
>Ian T. Okabe (okabe@unixg.ubc.ca)
>Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

There was a thread in this newsgroup about the least likely places for
earthquakes to strike.  The subject line was:

"Subject: RE: least likely earthquake areas..."  

I assumed that it was appropriate to post the paper to this newsgroup
and that there was interest on the subject.  Obviously that assumption
was incorrect.  I apologize for my error.

~jack_
From: greger@cae.wisc.edu (Greger Mike)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Re: Pacific Data
Summary: WEFAX info
Keywords: WEFAX
Date: 8 Oct 92 03:29:15 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering


	I don't know of any FTP sites that have milibar charts.  If you find
any sites with any weather maps, other than the ones listed in the FAQ, 
I would be interested.

	I do know something about WEFAX pictures though!  I have been
getting WEFAX pictures for about 2 years.  I have a very old shortwave 
radio and an inverted 'V' antenna with a Kantronics Packet controler.  I
can get pictures from all over the world.  I have gotten maps from about
20 U.S. cities, Nova Scotia, Africa and Japan...  With a good antenna and a
digital tuner you should be able to get several stations.  The stations that
seem to have the strongest signals are in Norfolk, VA and Nova Scotia.  They
broadcast on several frequencies so that one of the stations is strong at
any time of the day.  Norfolk has the strongest signal by far.  I know there
are several frequencies from a Hawaiian station and I know of several stations
in California.  There are many other weaker stations all over the U.S.  I
have a list of frequencies that is somewhat recent.  Too bad the list is not
in my possesion right now.  I should have it in a few days.  If you have
a radio, try tuning to around 8.?? MHz or 10.863 MHz or 3.5?? MHz for
Norfolk.  I think there is a station in California at about 17.1?? MHz.
There may be another station just above 20 MHz (WWV).  I'm not sure where
the station is (it may be Norfolk).  The one's in Hawaii don't come to mind 
now.  If you want a list E-mail be and I will try to get you a list as soon
as possible.  If enough people request a list, I will post it.

	Hints about the FAX decoder and shortwave tuner:

1. It is nice to have a grey-scale decoder for FAX.  The resolution is
   not outsanding.  The grey-scale helps make the picture more readable.  If
   I remember, the AEA-Fax decoder is grey-scale.

2. Digital tuners wok best.  Older tuners tend to wander and are hard to
   tune in the first place.  But, they will work fine if you are patient.

3. I good antenna is important for maps.  If the signal is not strong and
   clean, you can't read the numbers and symbols on the maps.  This is
   because of low resolution also.  The pictures are produced in 1800x1800
   dots, but that is misleading.  Most programs don't retrieve pictures
   in that resolution.

4. For other decoder options, look in QST May '87 and Jan '88.  There are
   some small articles and possibly lists of frequencies.  There is an
   article in QST in a 1991 issue.  Look in the September issue??  It has a
   circuit diagram for a grey-scale decoder.  It is very simple.  It 
   requires an IBM.  It uses a serial port.  The circuit is a simple wave
   clipper/conditioner with about 20 parts (total cost about $5-$10).  It
   uses software to decode the signal.

That's about it for now. 


Mike Greger
greger@garfield.wisc.edu
greger@cae.wisc.edu

P.S. would the person that posted this send me his/her e-mail address.  I
tried to respond by e-mail, but it didn't work.
From: okabe@unixg.ubc.ca (Ian Okabe)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Re: THE TRUE CAUSE & ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES (AND THEIR PREDICTION)
Date: 15 Oct 1992 02:54:41 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: kynok.ucs.ubc.ca
Keywords: ELF Monitoring, Earthquake Forecasting, Magnetic Fluctuations

excuse me but why was this posted to sci.geo.meteorology?
-- 
Ian T. Okabe (okabe@unixg.ubc.ca)
Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
From: hannegan@hyperion.gsfc.nasa.gov (Bryan Hannegan)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Fitness of Mech. Eng Study for GFD/Dynamic Metr.
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:14:34 GMT
Organization: Code 916, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Hello, all you happy people....

Care to share an opinion with me?
What do you folks think of a person with a BS in Meteorology (Go OU Sooners!
NOT!) who goes to a graduate school with no meteorology curriculum, but 
extensive coursework in Mechanical Engineering and Fluid Dynamics? Is he 
(okay, me!) crazy? What if this university had a good up and coming program
in Geosciences (read: atmospheric chemistry) with faculty like Rowland, 
Cicerone, and Prather?

Am I demented, and heading for the gradaute grave in the sky?
Should I seriously look at transfering?
Or is ME Fluids not too bad for the meanwhile until the Geosci folks
get started? 

My interests are in climate change modeling and understanding, but venture also
into the realms of environmental policy and law issues as well.

My cage is being rattled, must go. My workstation is down for a few days, so
please reply to bhann@metgem.gcn.uoknor.edu, not the above address!

Thanks,

Bryan Hannegan
University of California, Irvine
"Models are like sausages... you don't want to know what's in them..."
From: ben@ut-emx.uucp (Benjamin J. Sloan)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Hurricanes in Pacific; Iniki etymology
Date: 7 Oct 92 16:30:39 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas

Hurricane Iniki's visit to Hawaii raised a couple of questions
I'm sure somebody out there can answer.  First of all, who names
Pacific storms?  I understand many of the typhoons are referred
to simply by number.  Who numbers them?  Natl Weather Service (of
Japan or U.S.)?  Once they grow large they are upgraded to names?
Who named Iniki?  Also, I thought Pacific storms were always typhoons;
Atlantic storms always hurricanes.  True?

What is the origin of the name Iniki? It sounds polynesian. A goddess
of some sort?

Thanks for your help,

Ben Sloan
ben@emx.cc.utexas.edu

Xref: sparky sci.geo.meteorology:3207 sci.geo.fluids:376
From: lakerb@rcwusr.bp.com
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology,sci.geo.fluids
Subject: Re: binary land/sea grid for globe ?
Date: 12 Oct 92 11:26:55 -0500
Organization: BP Research, Cleveland, OH (USA)

In article <BvvnGr.C8E@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, gpetty@rain.atms.purdue.edu (Grant W. Petty) writes:
> Does anyone know where I can download a file containing accurate land
> vs.  sea flags in binary gridded form for the entire globe?  Ideally,
> this would be at approx. 0.1 deg. (or about 10 km) or better
> resolution, but I would settle for up to 0.25 deg. resolution if
> nothing else is available.
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> 

I just downloaded a Macintosh application "Imagic - The Release", probably from
mac.archive.umich.edu.  It contains a sea-surface temperature image of the
Earth, in rectangular format.  It appears to be 504 x 224 pixels.

Rob Lake
BP Research
lake@rcwcl1.dnet.bp.com

Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: sam@wa4phy.ampr.org (Sam Drinkard)
Subject: Re: least likely earthquake areas...
Organization: Garden City Gateway, Augusta, GA
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 22:29:55 GMT

mfoster@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Marc Foster) writes:


>>> least earth-quake activity areas.-----

>>Most likely the ones with a maximum chance of getting a hurricane, 
>>tornado, blizzard or flashfloods.
>>good luck,
>>raghu@enh.nist.edu

>Not true... at least for tornadoes... Kansas and Oklahoma, while not 
>being REALLY geologically active, have both experienced recent (last
>100 yrs.) earthquakes of 5.0+ on the Richter Scale.  Both also have
>numerous 3.0-4.0 (barely noticable) quakes each year.

>My guess goes to extreme Southern Florida, I think they're just far enough
>from Charleston to get away from any of the Piedmont/Blue Ridge formation
>eathquakes...

>Followups to that rock person type group (sci.geo.geology)

>Marc (waiting for the BIG sev. wx outbreak later this week) Foster

You forgot the one thing almost as bad as the earthquakes.. the karst
topography there and the sinkholes :}

Now where did that car go...

-- 
     Sam Drinkard		internet: wa4phy!sam@galois.nscf.org
     WA4PHY			amprnet:  wa4phy@wa4phy.ampr.org
From: aberson@enh.nist.gov
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: RE: THE TRUE CAUSE & ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES
Date: 15 Oct 92 22:38:03 GMT
Organization: NIST

In a previous article, jeff@louie.mcduck (Jeff Ward) wrote:
>It is.  Hydrometeors (water or ice droplets), lithometeors (dry particles in the
>atmosphere), etc.  Look up the word "meteor".

I was just being incredibly silly.

And your e-mail address doesn't work, or I wouldn't be cluttering up the
group like this.

       Sim Aberson   Ft. Lauderdale, FL   aberson%3328.span@sdsc.edu
"It's always Beach Party Barbie, or Malibu Barbie....  That shit does not
prepare you for the true horror of a real woman's life.  Where is Single,
Abused, Trailer-Park Barbie?"             - Roseanne Arnold
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
Subject: Re: Env. Satellites Shutdown in December 1992
Keywords: satellites, budget cuts
Organization: Unocal Corporation
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:42:15 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.200551.21195@news.uiowa.edu> flogden@icaen.uiowa.edu (Fred Lee Ogden) writes:
>Why in the world (pun intended) are nasa administrators shutting down 
>experiments which observe OUR planet, and not those which observe OTHER planets.

But the probes to pther planets are being shut down.  A funding extension
for Magellan around Venus was denied.  It cost over a half billion to get
it there, and about 40 million a year to operate.  It probably could last
several years past the 1993 shutdown date.
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: mfoster@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Marc Foster)
Subject: RE: least likely earthquake areas...
Originator: news@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 14:45:52 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK


>> least earth-quake activity areas.-----

>Most likely the ones with a maximum chance of getting a hurricane, 
>tornado, blizzard or flashfloods.
>good luck,
>raghu@enh.nist.edu

Not true... at least for tornadoes... Kansas and Oklahoma, while not 
being REALLY geologically active, have both experienced recent (last
100 yrs.) earthquakes of 5.0+ on the Richter Scale.  Both also have
numerous 3.0-4.0 (barely noticable) quakes each year.

My guess goes to extreme Southern Florida, I think they're just far enough
from Charleston to get away from any of the Piedmont/Blue Ridge formation
eathquakes...

Followups to that rock person type group (sci.geo.geology)

Marc (waiting for the BIG sev. wx outbreak later this week) Foster

Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: peny@ppc.lpc.ethz.ch (Peter Nyffeler ,x4399)
Subject: what have EARTHQUAKES to do with meterology?
Reply-To: peny@ppc.lpc.ethz.ch
Organization: ETH-Zuerich, Physical-Chemistry-Lab. - Switzerland
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:07:42 GMT

As a soaring-pilot I'm very interessted in meterology, that's why I subscibed this
newsgroup. But most news deals with EARTHQUAKES, what has this do do with meterlogy?

Is there no newsgroup for geology to discuss about EARTHQUAKES?

Peter Nyffeler
From: pauln@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (paul.h.nelson)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: Satellite Imagery
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:28:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbnewsi.1992Oct13.162834.17554
Organization: AT&T

Does anyone on the net have sources for NON-North American satellite
imagery.

Thanks,

Paul Nelson
Bell Labs
Naperville, IL
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: marcia@virga.ucar.edu (Marcia Politovich)
Subject: Re: Hurricanes in Pacific; Iniki etymology
Organization: Research Applications Program/NCAR, Boulder, CO
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 17:21:39 GMT

>What is the origin of the name Iniki? It sounds polynesian. A goddess
>of some sort?
>
 Iniki is the Hawaiian version of Enid. There are certain rules
 for making Hawaiian names from English names, eg. Samuel becomes Kamuela. 

 Now where "Enid" comes from, who knows? 

>Thanks for your help,
>
>Ben Sloan
>ben@emx.cc.utexas.edu
>
 Marcia Politovich, National Center for Atmsopheric Research
 standard disclaimers, etc...
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From: hbrooks@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu (Harold_Brooks)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: KNMI mailing address?
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:36:37 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.BvrI93.47F
Organization: NSSL

Does anyone have a complete mailing address for KNMI (Royal
Dutch Meteorological Institute) in DeBilt?

Harold
-- 
Harold Brooks                    hbrooks@uiatma.atmos.uiuc.edu
National Severe Storms Laboratory/CIMMS (Norman, OK)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: gilgan@ug.cs.dal.ca (Tommy Gilgan)
Subject: Information on GRIB data format
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:13:16 GMT

I am interested in getting in touch with anyone
who is familiar or uses the international GRIB format data.
My boss has asked me to find out if there is a GRIB viewer available
(I guess he wants a program that will overlay grib data on geography)

please get in touch with me if you have a program that does ANYTHING 
with GRIB data,

thanks much,

Tom Gilgan
MetOc centre
Dept. of Nat Defence
Hfx, CANADA
From: nin15b63@merrimack.edu (THE WOLF)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: least likely to get a tremor
Date: 9 Oct 92 00:28:23 GMT
Organization: Merrimack College, No. Andover, MA, USA

Which areas of the USA have the lowest levels of earthquake/tremor activity? 
Of the world?
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Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: blanchard@nsslc.gcn.uoknor.edu (David O. Blanchard)
Subject: Re: Hurricane Andrew Images
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1992 02:51:00 GMT

In article <1992Oct16.212606.22993@ncar.ucar.edu>, ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern) writes...
> 
>BTW, I have been experimenting with WAIS, archie, and gopher and
>am mucho impressed.  Expect a much expanded data sources FAQ next
>week!  

Could you describe what WAIS, archie, and gopher are?  Thanks. 

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Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: moonunit@meteor.wisc.edu (Chris Bovitz)
Subject: Calculating climate "norms"
Organization: University of Wisconsin, Meteorology and Space Science
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 05:04:28 GMT

Hi.  I have 30 years worth of daily temperature data (high & low 
temperatures) and daily precipitation (both snow and liquid equivalent)
for a station that does not have a local climatological data publication.
I would like to calcluate the 30-year "norms" the same way that the 
official norms are done.  

Does anyone know of where I can get a program to do that?  If someone
has a softcopy they can mail me, super, but if you can reference me to
articles, that'd be fine, too.

Thanks in advance.

BTW, the station is Hibbing, MN.


Chris

-- 
Chris Bovitz              |   
Department of Meteorology | "Climate is what you expect. 
Univ of Wisc - Madison    |  Weather is what you get."
moonunit@meteor.wisc.edu  |     -- Unknown
From: jhgillespie@ucdavis.edu (John Gillespie)
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
Subject: archives of Weather Underground?
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:24:04 GMT
Followup-To: sci.geo.meteorology
Organization: Center for Population Biology, UCD

Are the data available on the Weather Underground archived anywhere?
I am particularly interested in the marine observations (from buoys) for
the past few days off the California coast.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: ruscher@metdat.met.fsu.edu (Paul Ruscher)
Subject: Re: ENV SATELLITE SHUTDOWN IN DEC 1992
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1  
Keywords: nasa, environment, meteorology, satellite, ozone, aerosol
Organization: Florida State University Meteorology Dept
Date:  9 Oct 1992 20:42 EST  

In article <Bvv8p0.H9A@news.larc.nasa.gov>, rowland@zorba7.larc.nasa.gov (Michael W. Rowland) writes...
>This is a repost of 6 Oct. posting (revised)...
> 
>We at Langley Research Center received news on Thursday, October 2,
>1992 that NASA intends to shutdown the following satellites in
>December to save about $15M:
>     NUMBUS-7  (should be Nimbus 7)
>     ERBS
>     NOAA-9 (partial?)
>     NOAA-10 (partial?)
>     UARS (SPRING 1993)
> ... stuff deleted...
>Budget cuts are specified in House Conference Report 102-902
>that is attached to HR 5679, Sept. 24, 1992.
Did NASA decide, or did House decide, or did anyone really decide?
There seems to be at least some misinformation here, as NOAA 9 and
10 are NOAA satellites, not NASA, aren't they?  If any of this is
indeed true, who to write to for more info/to complain/etc.?  I
am one who would like to know.  I've spoken with NOAA folks and 
they claim it's a rumor (at least the NOAA 9 & 10 part), since
NOAA-I will likely be launched in May 1993, and therefore, as Rick
Emerson wrote over on WXSAT, one of these would then be obsoleted
(ww?).
Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: jeff@louie.mcduck (Jeff Ward)
Subject: Re: THE TRUE CAUSE & ORIGIN OF EARTHQUAKES
Reply-To: jeff@louie.mcduck
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 20:39:22 GMT

In article 13515956@enh.nist.gov, aberson@enh.nist.gov () writes:
>In a previous article, jeff@louie.mcduck (Jeff Ward) wrote:
>>...And I can remember the 'good ole days' when Meteorology involved talking 
>>about the weather ....
>
>And here I always thought it was about meteors.  Learn something new every
>day.

It is.  Hydrometeors (water or ice droplets), lithometeors (dry particles in the
atmosphere), etc.  Look up the word "meteor".

Jeff Ward, N4TRY
FSU Meteorology Dept.
Tallahassee, FL 






Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: trwagner@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Ted Wagner)
Subject: Weather maps?  Where to get via FTP.
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 02:47:42 GMT


	I want to study some weather maps.  I have been informed
that Illinois (some site) has a collection of weather maps including
some recent within the day to a few hours old.

	Does anyone have a list of sites that has weather charts and
maps?  Do they also have pics of satellite images so you can see
cloud formations?  The cloud formation is important to me...and I would
like to get to a site with them as well as current weather maps.

Thanks ahead of time.

Ted
-- 
         Swallowing your pride rarely leads to indigestion.
         A hard thing about business is minding your own!
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Newsgroups: sci.geo.meteorology
From: ilana@kiowa.scd.ucar.edu (Ilana Stern)
Subject: Hurricane Andrew Images
Organization: NCAR/UCAR
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:26:06 GMT

[I cancelled a previous article because I had the directory name wrong.]

Someone requested an archive site of hurricane Andrew images.  I found
one on spot.colorado.edu while I was trying out the 'archie' program
to find new data sources to add to the FAQ.  Satellite images, and
I believe surface maps and maybe other stuff, are in the directory 
pub/weather-images/hurricane.andrew. 

BTW, I have been experimenting with WAIS, archie, and gopher and
am mucho impressed.  Expect a much expanded data sources FAQ next
week!  

Also, I haven't gotten much feedback on the new format.  (Not that
I want to be deluged with mail.)  But if you don't find it easier to
find what you're looking for, send me your ideas.  

Ilana
ilana@ncar.ucar.edu

You can retrieve the most current version of the data sources faq by 
anonymous ftp to pit-manager.mit.edu, in the file weather-data in the
directory /pub/usenet/news.answers. 

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