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>From: Michelle Tuorto <address@hidden> >Organization: . >Keywords: 199908241602.KAA24922 >Hello - > >I've been receiving global infrared composites from SSEC at UW, and I am >not having any luck viewing them. I've put them in the directory >structure that GARP needs to read them, but I have noticed that their size >is much smaller than the size of one hour of GOES-8 IR data (225095 vs. >2422176). Is there a problem with the data, or does GARP just have a >problem viewing composite data? > >Thank you very much. >Michelle Tuorto > >****************************************************************** >Michelle Tuorto >University of Michigan Atmospheric Science >Mesoscale Meteorology Lab >734.764.0564 (W) >734.623.9377 (H) >address@hidden > Michelle, Gempak does not support the Mollweide projection used for the composite imagery being produced by SSEC. Steve Chiswell