The Office of Meteorology home page now has recent Technical Procedures Bulletins in their entirety available at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/tpbpr.htm.
The Advanced Interactive Weather Information Processing System (AWIPS) Network Control Facility provides weekly updates on topics such as the NOAAPORT datastream at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ncf/index.htm. By the way, the systems and subsystems associated with NOAAPORT are now stable with the C Band Reed-Solomon decoding scheme. Thus, NWS now views NOAAPORT as stable.
A satellite discussion of the GOES 8/9 image of the day is available through a NOAA Cooperative Institute web site at http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ramm/picoday/discussion.html, as well as archived discussions on topics such as derived satellite wind fields, false fog ceilings, tropical convection, and Dvorak intensity estimation.
At a November 5th workshop on satellite archive data rescue and reprocessing opportunities in Asheville, North Carolina, the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) announced its plans to eventually re-record all of the existing 40,000 U-matic GOES data tapes on to IBM 3590 diskettes in order to mitigate data loss that occurs with aging tapes from iron oxide deterioration and because tape players are becoming obsolete. At the workshop, scientists presented their ideas on data sets they would like to reprocess during the data rescue. Currently funds are unavailable for NOAA to reprocess the whole archive.
