Extremely experimental rss feed for marine obervations and guidance

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Robert Grumbine - 12 May 2005 17:10 GMT

Two RSS (2.0) feeds are now available on a highly experimental
basis from the NOAA/NWS Marine Modeling and analysis branch. Part
of the reason for it being highly experimental is that none of us
are yet set up to use RSS ourselves. Error messages welcome.

The first is simply an RSS index to the main product groups:
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/mmab/mmab.xml

The second is an index to current conditions for waves, sea ice,
and sea surface temperature:
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/mmab/current_conditions.xml
(current in the sense of the most recent analysis for sea ice and
sea surface temperature, which are updated daily, and the most
recent model cycle for the waves, which is run every 6 hours)

All of the products referenced are themselves operational. It is
the server itself which is not, and the RSS which is even less so.

Suggestions for improvements, additions, subtractions, how-to
are all welcome.

I certainly am never speaking for my employer!!!

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Michael Mcneil - 27 May 2005 23:31 GMT

> Suggestions for improvements, additions, subtractions, how-to
> are all welcome.

How about making them internet compliant? I believe there is a
consortium on the subject that does not see Internet Explorer as the
only way to read newsfeeds.

Not that I am complaining. But you did ask.

Perhaps you might pop over to Mozillazine to get some tips about XML?

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Alastair McDonald - 28 May 2005 11:57 GMT

> Two RSS (2.0) feeds are now available on a highly experimental
> basis from the NOAA/NWS Marine Modeling and analysis branch. Part
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> sea surface temperature, which are updated daily, and the most
> recent model cycle for the waves, which is run every 6 hours)

I have added them both to the newsfeeds available from my home page;
http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/

They do provide links to some interesting pages but I am not sure that
it is the correct use of news feeds. The other newsfeed on my home page
can change daily whereas your list will remain fixed and it the pages
they point to which change.

Anyway you can see how I am handling them, with my html source
unprotected.

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.

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Michael Mcneil - 29 May 2005 07:10 GMT

This is what it looks like in Netscape 8:

file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.
The document tree is shown below.

-
    <rss version="2.0">
-
    <channel>
<title>Marine Modeling and Analysis Branch (MMAB)</title>
-
    <description>
Analysis and forecast of marine conditions, including waves, sea ice,
sea surface temperature, winds, visibility, and vessel icing. All
products are freely available to all users.
</description>
<link>http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/</link>
-
    <item>
<title>MMAB Waves</title>
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    <description>
Wave height forecast model to 184 hours lead time

</description>
<link>http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/waves/</link>
</item>
-
    <item>
<title>MMAB Sea Ice</title>
<description>Sea ice concentration analysis
</description>
<link>http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/seaice/</link>
</item>
-
    <item>
<title>MMAB Sea Surface Temperature</title>
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    <description>
Near real time analysis of sea surface temperature

</description>
<link>http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/sst/</link>
</item>
-
    <item>
<title>MMAB Winds</title>
<description>Near real time analysis of marine winds
</description>
-
    <link>
http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/marine.meteorology/marine.winds/
</link>
</item>
-
    <item>
<title>MMAB Regional Ocean Forecast System</title>
-
    <description>
Forecast model for ocean temperature, salinity, and currents in the
northwestern Atlantic Ocean.

</description>
<link>http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/cofs/</link>
</item>
-
    <item>
<title>MMAB Automated Gulf Stream</title>
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    <description>
Automated finder for the location of the north wall of the Gulf
StreamOcean.

</description>
<link>http://polar.ncep.noaa.gov/gsf/</link>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>

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Alastair McDonald - 29 May 2005 09:24 GMT

> This is what it looks like in Netscape 8:
>
> file does not appear to have any style information associated with it.
> The document tree is shown below.

The file should not be opened directly. You need a news reader which can
display it properly. What I have done is use a newsreader at the University
of Reading here in the UK. To see how it is done, look at (edit) the file
http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/noaa1.htm

HTH,

Cheers, Alastair.

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Michael Mcneil - 13 Jul 2005 18:50 GMT

> The file should not be opened directly. You need a news reader which can
> display it properly. What I have done is use a newsreader at the University
> of Reading here in the UK. To see how it is done, look at (edit) the file
> http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/noaa1.htm

I have it set in Netscape to feed news automatcally but seem to have
lost the toolbar.

This is where to get it running in Firefox:

Bookmarks > Manage Bookmarks > File > New Live Book-mark...

Choose a title and clip the URL in and it will not work for me too
neither.

I accept irresponsiblity of course. It may just need a restart but I
have stuff saved in there at the mo, so I can't.

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Extremely experimental rss feed for marine obervations and guidance