$Id: README.txt 17 2007-09-18 21:57:29Z foley $
NOAA Weather Data
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this is the unedited hourly weather information as snarfed from
http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/ulcd/

It's unclear what kind of license it's distributed under. 
People within the .edu domain are allowed to download it
for free, otherwise there's a fee on the download.
http://www.nndc.noaa.gov/phase3/freeaccess.html
Is the closest thing I can find to a license

..accordingly the data is acl'ed to authuser.


tools contains a variety of useful tools for manipulating the data

update.pl - updates the compressed and uncompressed directories
            (beware, as of 9/18/2007 the compressed was 1.3GiB
	    and uncompressed is 19GiB)

extract-station.pl - walks the files in the uncompressed directory tree
		   and looks for entries that match the filter described

StationDB.pm - perl module for examining station.txt

NOAAFilter.pm - perl module for parsing NOAA data


This work is based upon previous work by Joseph Sokol-Margolis (seph).
9/18/2007 -- foley