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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 19:38:34 -0400 From: "James P. Koermer" <address@hidden> To: Unidata Support <address@hidden> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden Subject: Re: 19990801: No McIDAS AREA files (cont.) Unidata Support wrote: > > >From: "Chad W. Johnson" <address@hidden> > >Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison > >Keywords: 199908010030.SAA12535 Unidata-Wisconsin > > Chad, et. al., > > >The LDM on Unidata was running and we were receiving NIDS products from WSI. > >I > >don't know what the problem was with the MCIDAS stream. I > >stopped and restarted the LDM. Let me know if you still have problems. > > The images flowed for awhile and then stopped again. Here is what I see > for GOES-East and GOES-West IR images as of 18:26 Z: > > IMGLIST RTIMAGES/GE-IR.ALL > Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GE-IR > Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s) > sensor Lat Lon > --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ > 1 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 04:15:00 23 71 4 > 2 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 05:15:00 23 71 4 > 3 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 06:15:00 23 71 4 > 4 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 07:15:00 23 71 4 > 5 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 08:15:00 23 71 4 > 6 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 09:15:00 23 71 4 > 7 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 10:15:00 23 71 4 > 8 G-8 IMG 1 AUG 99213 15:15:00 23 71 4 > 9 G-8 IMG 1 AUG 99213 16:15:00 23 71 4 > 10 G-8 IMG 31 JUL 99212 03:15:00 23 71 4 > IMGLIST: done > IMGLIST RTIMAGES/GW-IR.ALL > Image file directory listing for:RTIMAGES/GW-IR > Pos Satellite/ Date Time Center Band(s) > sensor Lat Lon > --- ------------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ > 1 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 02:00:00 24 137 4 > 2 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 03:00:00 24 137 4 > 3 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 04:00:00 24 137 4 > 4 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 05:00:00 24 137 4 > 5 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 06:00:00 24 137 4 > 6 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 07:00:00 24 137 4 > 7 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 08:00:00 24 137 4 > 8 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 09:00:00 24 137 4 > 9 G-10 IMG 31 JUL 99212 10:00:00 24 137 4 > 10 G-10 IMG 1 AUG 99213 16:00:00 24 137 4 > IMGLIST: done > > As you can see, we got two East IRs and one West one. The strange thing > that I am seeing is that a notifyme from Unidata to unidata.ssec.wisc.edu > times out while trying to make a connection. > > >I'll try and check back later today. > > Thanks for this. > > Tom Hello All, The last image that we have received at Plymouth State was a GOES-10 water vapor image for 1400Z. We did get 1315Z GOES-8 data and a 1300Z GOES-10 IR image. Over the last two months, our receipt of McIDAS GOES AREA files has been a real problem. It seems that LDM is frequently having problems at our upstream sites with the McIDAS data. Since these problems didn't seem to happen much before, I am wondering if there might be a problem with the latest release of LDM. I don't know what version SSEC uses or UIUC or UMICH, but I can't think of anything else that might have changed. In any case, I think this problem is significant enough that Unidata should investigate the problems with the McIDAS GOES AREA files and hopefully find a solution. There hardly seems to be any problems with NIDS and NLDN data feeds by comparison. The GOES problems have resulted in frequent extended outages. Jim -- James P. Koermer E-Mail: address@hidden Professor of Meteorology Phone: (603)535-2325 Natural Science Department Fax: (603)535-2723 Plymouth State College WWW: http://vortex.plymouth.edu/ Plymouth, New Hampshire 03264