Radar Product Central
Collection Dissemination Service
(RPCCDS)

The National Weather Service (NWS) is centrally collecting Level III products from 156 WSR-88D radars and 45 TDWR radars. The Level III radar products can either be obtained by directly connecting to the Gateway for an immediate receipt of the products through a LDM feed, via standard anonymous FTP from the Gateway file servers, or receipt of a NOAANet transmission. The documentation on the products and instructions to download the software needed for the LDM dissemination can be found below.

• File Transfer documentation on how to FTP data from the Gateway file servers
• Gateway FTP description of the radar products on the file server (subdirectories and file names for retrieval)
• Directory & File Standard used for establishing Gateway file server product subdirectories and file names
• Data Formats of WSR-88D radar products are found in the following ICDs available at http://www.roc.noaa.gov/WSR88D/ : ICD for RPG to Class 1 User, ICD for Product Specification. The ICDs are updated with each RPG software release. Current TDWR-SPG ICDs are available at: http://www.roc.noaa.gov/spg/.
• Upcoming WSR-88D Software Changes that may impact RPCCDS users
  

Family of Services Agreement and Fee Schedule for the access to the "Radar Products Service"(RPS) via dedicated line connection to the RPCCDS.

• Users can access the RPS via dedicated communications line to the NWSTG. All radar products that the NWS is centrally collecting are available through the RPS.


• Only current customers can have direct links (which will be moved to SSAP or NOAANet), new customers must have a NOAANet connection.


• Any user interested in subscribing to the RPS should first contact Julie.Hayes@noaa.gov at (301) 713-0864 x120.
  

• RPCCDS Radar Products - Radar products available from RPCCDS.
  
• NOAAPORT Products - Radar products available from NOAAPORT.
  
• Radar Site Monitor - Current radar site status.
  

Software needed to receive the LDM data feed from the Gateway:

• Software Implementation a guide for configurating the software used for the LDM services of the Gateway
  
• Download the LDM Software for receiving in realtime from Unidata

More information about WSR-88D and TDWR radar:

The NWS has established a web site for additional information on the NEXRAD/WSR-88D and TDWR radars at the NEXRAD Radar Operations Center (ROC), http://www.roc.noaa.gov.