20000628: CIMMS data receipt (cont.)

>From: "charles h. murphy" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Kean University
>Keywords: 200006281519.e5SFJHT17559 Unidata-Wisconsin CIMSS

Charlie,

>       I just checked my ldm machine and it has now 
>received AREA1120 at 15:32:41 with a size of 308448 bytes.

OK, this tells me that your pnga2area decode entry in pqact.conf must
be setup correctly.  We just verified that hurri had received this
product via a notifyme to it:

notifyme -vxl- -f MCIDAS -o 5000 -h hurri.kean.edu

Jun 28 16:34:08 notifyme[29649]: Starting Up: hurri.kean.edu: 
20000628151048.465 TS_ENDT {{MCIDAS,  ".*"}}
        NOTIFYME(hurri.kean.edu) returns OK
Jun 28 16:34:08 notifyme[29649]: NOTIFYME(hurri.kean.edu): OK
Jun 28 16:34:08 notifyme[29649]: c87c81146634831552f1d61e7b5cb290   437693 
20000628153148.269  MCIDAS 000  LWTOA3 163 DIALPROD=UA   180 153144
Jun 28 16:34:08 notifyme[29649]: 79b15f7b9703b01889c0abbba5a7563c   153624 
20000628153230.898  MCIDAS 000  pnga2area Q0 CC 1120 GOES-9_IMG UNKBAND 10km 
19990811 1200
Jun 28 16:34:09 notifyme[29649]: 693a56f5af4276127c8efeb9f5910f82   406418 
20000628153356.626  MCIDAS 000  LWTOA3 63 DIALPROD=UC   180 153345
Jun 28 16:34:09 notifyme[29649]: e6f0098fff584ecf7b0b4a8649db8884  1362163 20000

You can see from this listing that hurri received the CIMSS product
(product code CC) during the past 5000 seconds.  The only thing wrong
with this, however, is that there should be no CIMSS products from
GOES-9!  This is what I am looking into right now.

You seeing AREA1120 tells me that you have your pqact.conf entry
configured something like:

MCIDAS  ^pnga2area Q. (..) (.*) (.*) (.*) (.*) (........) (....)
    PIPE    -close
    pnga2area -d /var/data/mcidas -r \1,\2

(The output directory is most likely different.)

Thanks for keeping on top of this.

One last comment (mainly for the tracking system :-): the CIMSS
products are typically delivered pretty regularly, at least that has
been our observation over the past three weeks.  There can be times
when no CIMSS product is sent, so one really has to believe the
disclaimer sent in the datastream announcement:

  The images are experimental products, generated and maintained
  within a research environment at CIMSS (Cooperative Institute for
  Meteorological Satellite Studies, http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu).
  They are not intended to be considered operational.  Timeliness,
  availability, and accuracy are sought but not guaranteed.

Tom