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Thank you for the summary. Funny I was looking for some data from NOAA a few months ago and I ended up giving up. Their website has become a mess. I remember

Thank you for the summary. Funny I was looking for some data from NOAA a few months ago and I ended up giving up. Their website has become a mess. I remember doing the same a few decades ago it was pretty straightforward, if I remember correctly there was a well organised anonymous FTP server and you would connect and transfer what you needed. So why not seeing this as an opportunity to go back to a simple, cheap and effective system? how hard can it be to serve those data with HTTP on a web server?

floatrock 2y ago
> how hard can it be to serve those data with HTTP on a web server? We're talking about TB and TB of scientific data, so pretty hard. Meanwhile, here's a nice well-organized easily-accessible glorified FTP server of all this: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-mmz4ve4u5cdui#resources https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-mmz4ve4u5cdui... https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/ https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/
alabastervlog 2y ago
https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/grib/hpcgrib.shtml https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/grib/hpcgrib.shtml > The WPC makes available its Day 1-3 6-hourly QPF files in GRIB 1 format at 32km resolution. The GRIB files are available for download via the NCEP anonymous FTP server (ftp.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov) Et c., there's more. I think that's forecast data. Also: https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/ https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/ And so on. Throw "grib" (a data format they use a ton) on a search and you'll start finding pages like this. Took about a minute to find this stuff.