Consider prioritization of long-term usage, e.g., field projects, climate, etc. The growth in both the volume and number of data resources in the atmospheric and related sciences imposes challenges in data distribution by existing methods. The availability of data for all of the WSR-88D radars is one example of these expanding resources. There are two parts to the discussion of WSR-88D data. Unidata is planning to include the data in the IDD distribution.
Planning is underway to establish procedures for sites to utilize the data.
In response to Actions 1-3 from the June 2000 meeting, several ideas were exchanged. The test will be performed between Unidata and a site to send data and to evaluate the first and second tier results. Disk limitations could restrict the ability of some sites to file all the data. This will be a consideration when performing the test. Floaters for combinations of the 88D sites will be explored.