19990909: Missing GOES-10 imagery

Pete,

Yes, the areaInfo program used by nsat_links needed an update
last year when goes 9 ceased and the new GOES-10 number was introduced.
Actually, I added the numbers through GOES-12 to preempt the next
failure. The areainfo program is used by the script to determine the
time, imager, and band from the areafile for the gempak GARP/NSAT expected
name since the AREA0120 name doesn't do diddly for telling what time
the image is without looking inside.

You can get areaInfo from ~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/patches/areainfo.tar.Z
(it is updated in the current tar file 
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/gempak54upc_pl12.tar.gz
as well as many other patches and new programs)

To update your areainfo, download the tarfile to your $NAWIPS directory
and then:

zcat areainfo.tar.Z | tar xvf -
cd $NAWIPS/unidata/programs/areainfo
make clean
make
make install
make clean

Steve Chiswell

Unidata User SUpport



>From: Rahe Peter J MSgt AFIT/ENP <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199909141645.KAA03951

>Steve,
>
>       Maybe I'm just confused on how gempak gets the imagery to display.
>I do have the AREA files for GOES-10, and have checked the McIDAS routing
>table (ROUTE LIST) and show the necessary lines.   I also have a single
>LWTOA3 pqact.conf action which passes the products to the ldm-mcidas lwtoa3
>decoder program as you stated.  The last item is the cron job for LDM to run
>the NAWIPS script nsat_links and I think that is where the problem lies.  I
>think I have an old copy of nsat_links that handles Goes-7, 8 , and 9.
>Where can I get a new and improved version of the script? 
>
>Peter J. Rahe                          
>Superintendent, Meteorology Lab Operations
>Air Force Institute of Technology
>Wright-Patterson AFB OH
>*address@hidden or address@hidden              
>*DSN 785-3636 x4646  COMM (937) 255-3636 x4646
>Fax:  DSN 785-2921    COMM (937) 255-2921
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:        Unidata Support [SMTP:address@hidden]
>> Sent:        Thursday, September 09, 1999 11:52 AM
>> To:  Rahe Peter J MSgt AFIT/ENP
>> Cc:  'address@hidden'
>> Subject:     19990909: Missing GOES-10 imagery 
>> 
>> >From: Rahe Peter J MSgt AFIT/ENP <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: .
>> >Keywords: 199909091351.HAA27248
>> 
>> >I haven't received GOES-10 imagery for quite some time now, and can't
>> figure
>> >why.  GOES-8 comes in fine.  The AREA files are being filed, but that's
>> as
>> >far as it goes.  Any clues?
>> >
>> >Peter J. Rahe                               
>> >Superintendent, Meteorology Lab Operations
>> >Air Force Institute of Technology
>> >Wright-Patterson AFB OH
>> >*address@hidden or address@hidden           
>> >*DSN 785-3636 x4646  COMM (937) 255-3636 x4646
>> >Fax:  DSN 785-2921    COMM (937) 255-2921
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> Pete, 
>> I ran:
>> notifyme -v -l - -o 3600 -f MCIDAS -h fujita.afit.af.mil
>> 
>> and see for this hour:
>> 1287354 19990909151648.309  MCIDAS 000  LWTOA3 133 DIALPROD=U5 99252
>> 151618
>> 2347797 19990909151700.556  MCIDAS 000  LWTOA3 123 DIALPROD=U9 99252
>> 151619
>> 
>> The files AREA012x are GOES-10 visible images, and AREA013x are
>> GOES-10 ir images.
>> 
>> So, the data is arriving at your computer. Presumably, you have a single
>> LWTOA3 pqact.conf action which passes the products to the ldm-mcidas
>> lwtoa3 decoder program. The lwtoa3 decoder should log each header that 
>> it receives. You should verify that you have the AREA012x and AREA013x
>> file
>> names in the log file, and are being stored in the mcidas data directory.
>> 
>> I am not clear as to what you mean by saying you haven't received the
>> data- but the AREA files are being filed. That seems to say you
>> are filing the GOES-10 images, and we can see that they are arriving
>> at your computer.
>> 
>> Steve Chiswell
>> 
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