On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Jeff Weber wrote:
Unidata has tracked these issues and coordinated some options that can be
utilized when the DIFAX service ceases to exist or Alden continues with idd
transmission difficulties.
Unidata is generating .gif imagery of these products via Redbook Graphics and can be viewed or downloaded at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/chiz/redbook/
Just a word of warning...NWS is going to discontinue these too, eventually.
The University of Wisconsin is also generating DIFAX type products which are
available for viewing and download in postscript format at:
http://mapmaker.meteor.wisc.edu/difaxmaps/
NOAA also offers DIFAX type products for viewing and download in compressed
(G4) .tiff formats at:
http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/graph.shtml
and
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/wefax/products.htm
DIFAX will cease operations in the near future, we offer these options as
interim solutions.
Thanks, but the Wisconsin site is difficult to get images from, since they are
in different directories. The weather.noaa.gov site is a slow download, to say
the least. It looks like I and all of us will need to look for a longer term
solution pretty quick, as others have stated.
