Re: [Fwd: Problems with Archive Level II from KMLB] (fwd)

Hi Tim,

Re KMLB on the 14th of August:

Looks like some gaps do exist..and some volume discrepancies around 0700Z

I did not run the attached program, but hope this sheds some light.

If needed I can run (I think) the attached script..

From bigbird.tamu.edu

[ldm@bigbird KMLB]$ ls -l
total 12304
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 215092 Aug 13 20:06 KMLB_20040814_0001
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 204476 Aug 13 20:44 KMLB_20040814_0039
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 203543 Aug 13 21:18 KMLB_20040814_0113
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 198361 Aug 13 21:22 KMLB_20040814_0118
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 196283 Aug 13 21:26 KMLB_20040814_0122
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 192508 Aug 13 21:30 KMLB_20040814_0126
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 190208 Aug 13 21:34 KMLB_20040814_0130
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 148187 Aug 13 22:21 KMLB_20040814_0217
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 183596 Aug 13 22:55 KMLB_20040814_0251
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 152158 Aug 13 22:59 KMLB_20040814_0255
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 452296 Aug 13 23:08 KMLB_20040814_0303
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 135001 Aug 13 23:24 KMLB_20040814_0320
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 227165 Aug 13 23:29 KMLB_20040814_0324
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 142352 Aug 14 00:07 KMLB_20040814_0402
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 182489 Aug 14 00:11 KMLB_20040814_0407
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm  76403 Aug 14 03:17 KMLB_20040814_0713
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm  83846 Aug 14 03:26 KMLB_20040814_0721
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 106867 Aug 14 05:12 KMLB_20040814_0908
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 134497 Aug 14 05:34 KMLB_20040814_0929
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 134445 Aug 14 06:03 KMLB_20040814_0959
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 123278 Aug 14 06:07 KMLB_20040814_1003
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 202194 Aug 14 06:37 KMLB_20040814_1033
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 246065 Aug 14 06:50 KMLB_20040814_1045
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 131702 Aug 14 07:49 KMLB_20040814_1145
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 145247 Aug 14 08:01 KMLB_20040814_1157
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 267329 Aug 14 08:18 KMLB_20040814_1214
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 248430 Aug 14 08:27 KMLB_20040814_1223
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 152386 Aug 14 08:31 KMLB_20040814_1227
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 188529 Aug 14 08:52 KMLB_20040814_1248
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 187024 Aug 14 09:18 KMLB_20040814_1313
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 253420 Aug 14 09:47 KMLB_20040814_1343
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 238546 Aug 14 10:04 KMLB_20040814_1400
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 123255 Aug 14 10:08 KMLB_20040814_1404
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 249291 Aug 14 10:21 KMLB_20040814_1417
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 232405 Aug 14 10:25 KMLB_20040814_1421
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 190984 Aug 14 10:29 KMLB_20040814_1425
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 147493 Aug 14 11:37 KMLB_20040814_1533
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 248234 Aug 14 11:41 KMLB_20040814_1537
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 203532 Aug 14 12:08 KMLB_20040814_1602
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 207182 Aug 14 12:12 KMLB_20040814_1608
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 144388 Aug 14 12:16 KMLB_20040814_1612
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm  95812 Aug 14 12:25 KMLB_20040814_1620
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 314314 Aug 14 12:33 KMLB_20040814_1629
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 144566 Aug 14 12:37 KMLB_20040814_1633
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 234005 Aug 14 13:20 KMLB_20040814_1715
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 303170 Aug 14 13:36 KMLB_20040814_1732
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 233450 Aug 14 15:26 KMLB_20040814_1922
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 300894 Aug 14 15:48 KMLB_20040814_1943
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 293238 Aug 14 15:52 KMLB_20040814_1947
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 240173 Aug 14 15:56 KMLB_20040814_1952
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 174011 Aug 14 17:46 KMLB_20040814_2142
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 358439 Aug 14 18:11 KMLB_20040814_2207
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 284649 Aug 14 18:15 KMLB_20040814_2211
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 271719 Aug 14 18:37 KMLB_20040814_2232
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 451410 Aug 14 19:06 KMLB_20040814_2302
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 289706 Aug 14 19:15 KMLB_20040814_2310
-rw-rw-r--  1 ldm ldm 566047 Aug 14 19:19 KMLB_20040814_2315
[ldm@bigbird KMLB]$

So this is what we ingested and have access to...

Hope this helps,

Jeff
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Tim D Crum wrote:

> Jeff,
>
> Here is the email from Peter Dodge discussing incomplete VCP12 Level II
> data.  As per our telecon.  Any thoughts would be welcomed.
>
>
> Tim
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Problems with Archive Level II from KMLB
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 13:15:25 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Peter Dodge <address@hidden>
> To: Tim D Crum <address@hidden>
> CC: Mark A Fresch <address@hidden>,"Colin J. McAdie"
> <address@hidden>,Scott Spratt <address@hidden>, Dave
> Sharp <address@hidden>
> References: <address@hidden>
> <address@hidden><address@hidden>
> <address@hidden> <address@hidden>
>
> Tim, I know you may not be the person to handle this but figured you
> might know who would. I have obtained all the Archive Level II tar files
> for H Charley from NCDC (as has Paul Harasti and Wen-Chau lee among
> others). Now we all have to revise our software to handle VCP 121 but
> that
> should not be too big a deal, and should benefit us in the long run.
>       Hpwever, we have a problem with Melbourne data after OOZ on the
> 14th The data were recorded in VCP 12 and the files are very small. At
> first I thought they might be bzip2 compressed but that does not seem to
> be the case. I have a simple C program, chk_nxrd_msg_types.c (I have
> attched a copy) that dumps out the az el from each radial data record
> (msg type 1) and also dumps out the other msg types that it finds. I
> have
> attached the output from that program for two level II volumes from MLB,
> for 0001 and 0307 UTC on 14 August. As you can see from the ascii files
> it
> looks like a lot of the intermediate sweeps did not make it into the
> NCDC
> archive. We are hoping that those data still reside at MLB somewhere. We
> really would like these dara because they could help in describing the
> intensity change in Charley - especially in the TBW-MLB dual Doppler
> lobe. Thanks for any help you can give us! Peter Dodge