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On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Unidata Support wrote: > > ------- Forwarded Message > > >To: address@hidden > >From: William Noon <address@hidden> > >Subject: duplicate products in the noaaport idd > >Organization: . > >Keywords: 199907082315.RAA10419 > > For some time now I have noticed a large increase in the volume of raw idd > data that comes through the idd. This change started with the switch > over to noaaport. I originally said, "Good. More data." But looking at > it more carefully I saw that there are a lot of duplicated products and > the number of dups varies with the time of day and the type of products. Bill, I was unaware of duplicates. Can you be more precise about the duplicates, the product names, do they have different sequence numbers, arrival times, etc. > > There is also the odd stats records: > > # cat logs/1999070822.stats > 19990708225952 HDS desi.unidata.ucar.edu 475 2164524 > 1.10 6@0306 19990708225952 > 19990708225826 HDS dusk.ssec.wisc.edu 241 1047223 > 0.75 5@0259 19990708225827 > 19990708225959 HDS nport.alden.com 336 1593342 > 0.00 0@0000 19990708225612 > 19990708225931 IDS|DDPLUS desi.unidata.ucar.edu 1533 1297117 > 0.61 11@1959 19990708225931 > 19990708225848 IDS|DDPLUS dusk.ssec.wisc.edu 1136 861876 > 0.73 5@0300 19990708225849 > 19990708225948 IDS|DDPLUS nport.alden.com 1543 1165652 > 0.00 0@0000 19990708225601 > 19990708223649 MCIDAS gold.ssec.wisc.edu 11 8657088 > 19.30 39@1712 19990708223726 > 19990708225808 FSL2 dion.fsl.noaa.gov 11 1675128 > 13.68 24@4557 19990708225821 > > Note that I am only requesting WMO data from thelma. The above is correct because desi feeds nport, nport feeds dusk, and dusk feeds desi. It's a circular feed structure, it possible for products to be originating from any of the above to arrive first at thelma. > > Am I the only one seeing this? > Noop, everyone is seeing this. Robb... > --Bill Noon > Northeast Regional Climate Center > Cornell University > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================