Re: 19990801: No McIDAS AREA files (cont.) (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
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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

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