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PDreview[edit]
From the FAC,
- The link is a "floater", which means it is a zoom in of a water-vapor scan from the GOES-EAST satellite (the normal link for the unzoomed animation would be http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/eaus/loop-wv.html). However, since there are only four available floater channels (for reasons too long to explain in here), the exact link in which the image was located (probably http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/loop-wv.html or similar) gets overwritten every fourth tropical storm, when the rest of the floaters have been allocated and the counter loops around. So the most precise way to get to floater images is to go to the original link (or to http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters.html) and scroll down to the floaters section, and pick one, as that is how the image was originally obtained. However, it is not available there anymore (at least without purchasing the relevant GOES-EAST data set...). So I'm not sure how to address your request. Titoxd(?!? - cool stuff) 09:42, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Personal investigation shows that the page is archived at http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/nwatl/loop-wv.html; however, as the imagery is served by a Java applet, the applet on the archived page would "hang" because the paths to the imagery are either missing (no longer maintained by NOAA) or malformed (due to the applet's hosting on webarchive). Furthermore, the NOAA site does serve information for Andrea (NOAA search result), even showing http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/nwatl/loop-wv.html as the 9th search term (hence, confirming that the page once hosted information for Andrea 2007). Adding on, the current imagery on the NOAA site shows that the animation is likely to come from there (layout, logos, and style are similar) and it is unlikely someone would forge the water-vapor scan, even replicating the step-wise time graduation. Hence, this PDreview affirms the authenticity of the claim. Jappalang (talk) 14:47, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
