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Re: 20000719: idd data stream sizes

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  • Subject: Re: 20000719: idd data stream sizes
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 13:44:39 -0600 (MDT)
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Unidata Support wrote:

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> 
> >cc: address@hidden
> >From: alan anderson <address@hidden>
> >Subject: idd data stream sizes
> >Organization: St. Cloud State
> >Keywords: 200007182051.e6IKpBT17413 IDD datastream volumes
> 
> 
> I had a visit with our campus network people today and one of 
> the questions from them was the amount of data we get and
> how much we plan to get.
> 
> Checking my last year's ldm workshop and site manager's guide,
> the figures listed are:
> 
>          DDPLUS    25 MB/day
>          IDS        8 MB/day
>          MCIDAS    35 MB/day
>          HDS       75 MB/day
>          NLDN       4 MB/day
>          NIDS      35 MB/day for one radar.

Alan,

I think the above numbers are way off, all the data streams have really
increased in the last year. Model times were extended, more reports
available, etc.

The total for DDPLUS IDS HDS MCIDAS and NLDN is close to 1.5 gigabytes a
day. The largest is HDS that is close to a gigabyte, then ~ 400 megabytes
for McIDAS,  ~170 megabytes for DDPLUS and IDS.  The NIDS is about 100
megabytes.

Robb... 


> 
> At present we only are asking for the first 3 items, but plan to
> add HDS and NLDN very soon.  
> 
> Are these numbers still correct, or nearly so?  For some reason
> I thought they were larger, although I think these are what are
> still listed on the UNIDATA website (LDM stuff).  
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Alan 
> 
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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