The Space Science and Engineering Center at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, in cooperation with NOAA/NESDIS is pleased to
announce the availability of real-time, gridded GOES-8 imagery over
North America in gif format.

We will be uploading the images every half hour unless our network
loading is too stressed, in which case we'll back off to once per hour.

The URLs:

	gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/gsdc.d/realtime-8.d/
	ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/gopher/gsdc.d/realtime-8.d/
	http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/

The file names are:

	G8VIS.GIF for the visible data
	G8IR.IGF for the infrared (IR1 - window channel)
	G8WV.GIF for the water vapor channel

The image resolution is nominally 4km; the image sizes are 900 x 1024.
The data from h+15 and h+45 are used, and are normally available on
line ten minutes later.  After the satellite has reached it's fixed
longitude, we may shift the image a little eastward to avoid viewing
too much of space.


In addition, we are providing a once-per-day globe visible and IR from
GOES-8 (as we've done for GOES-7 for many months now).  The URLs:

	gopher://gopher.ssec.wisc.edu/gsdc.d/browse-8.d/
	ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/gopher/gsdc.d/browse-8.d/
	http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/

The file names are:

	G8VISHEM.GIF for the visible data
	G8IRHEM.GIF for the infrared (IR1 - window channel)

The image resolution is nominally 32km; the image sizes are about 452 x
480.  The data from 17:45 are used, and the images are normally posted
by 1820Z each day.


Tom & Chad 

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Tom Whittaker                                          tomw@ssec.wisc.edu
Space Science and Eng. Center             University of Wisconsin-Madison

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  Chad W. Johnson
  chadj@ssec.wisc.edu   (608) 265-5292
  University Of Wisconsin - Madison
  Space Science And Engineering Center


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