Network Working Group D. Stern
Request for Comment No. 251 CCA
NIC No. 7692 13 October 1971
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WEATHER DATA
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- providing weather data for the ARPA Network. Ultimately there
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- will be ten years of high quality surface and upper air weather
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- observations, as well as hemispheric grid point analyses. The
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- observations are generated by approximately 5000 surface and
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- 1200 upper air stations, distributed all over the world.
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- The data is to be available via the datacomputer, a specialized
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- node of the ARPA Network that is dedicated to the management of
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- shared data bases and designed to accommodate large ones. The
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- datacomputer, currently under development by Computer Corporation
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- of America (CCA), will provide services* for the use of these
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- data bases, including the weather data.
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- A working group has been formed to design the data base,
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- coordinate its implementation with the development of the
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- datacomputer, plan testing, project uses, and resolve a variety
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- of technical issues associated with its size and complexity.
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- Prospective users, working members, or interested parties should
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- contact:
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Dale H. Stern
Computer Corporation of America
575 Technology Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
617-491-3670
- * See RFC 219
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[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by BBN Corp. under the ]
[ direction of Alex McKenzie. 12/96 ]
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