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Re: 20000926: interesting IDD numbers from motherlode (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: 20000926: interesting IDD numbers from motherlode (fwd)
  • Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:28:41 -0600 (MDT)

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:23:38 -0600
From: Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>
To: Linda Miller <address@hidden>
     address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: 20000926: interesting IDD numbers from motherlode

Linda,

Every 10 minutes, FSL sends a NetCDF file with the ACARS observations
(the order of 3000-5000 observations per netcdf file...many duplicates over
the past hour). The "product" unit for the LDM is 1 NetCDF file, and not 1 ACARS
observation.

Hope this clarifies.

Chiz



On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Linda Miller wrote:

> Tom and Russ,
> 
> One statistic that I'm curious about is the number of products listed for 
> ACARS.  With the addition of the AMDARS with the ACARS data made available 
> from 
> FSL, the number of products should be near 98,000 per day.  Why are the 
> number 
> of products only 144?  Even with a 15 hour period, ACARS and AMDARS should 
> represent significantly more than listed (unless they are packaged 
> differently).
> 
> Linda
> 
> --On Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:54 PM -0600 Tom Yoksas 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I thought you would be interested in the volume of "IDD" data flowing
> > to and from motherlode.  The numbers for products being sent to
> > motherlode are the result of a 15 hour sample done by Russ.  I added
> > the numbers for data flowing from motherlode to downstream nodes.
> >
> >
> > Products Inbound per day
> >
> > Feed Type     MB   # prod   Explanation
> > -----------+----+----------+--------------------------------------------------
> > WSI         7336   662890   All NIDS/NOWrad products from WSI
> > NMC2        6443   247482   CONDUIT
> > NNEXRAD     3231   172115   encrypted NOAAPORT NIDS products
> > NIMAGE      2977     3371   NOAAPORT products identified as satellite 
> > imagery
> > HDS         1319   125970   binary data from NWSTG
> > NGRID        938    70346   products on NWSTG identified as gridded data
> > NOGAPS       262     2557   FNMOC model output
> > NTEXT        210   324736   products on NWSTG identified as a 'text' product
> > DDPLUS|IDS   167   210518   NOAAPORT ascii text produts
> > MCIDAS        95      326   Unidata-Wisconsin image products
> > SPARE         67      790   other
> > PCWS          65      144   ACARS
> > FSL2          42      264   FSL wind profiler
> > NGRAPH         4      640   Redbook graphics
> > NLDN           3      240   NLDN lightning
> >             ----  -------
> >            23159  1822389
> >
> > Products Outbound per day
> >
> > Feed Type     MB   # prod   # sites fed
> > -----------+----+----------+--------------------------------------------------
> > DDPLUS|IDS  2004  2526216   12
> > NMC2       45101  1732374    7
> > HDS        15828  1511640   12
> > FSL2         420     2640   10
> > MCIDAS       475     1630    5
> > SPARE        134     1580    2
> >            -----  -------
> >            63962  5776080
> >
> > Total per day
> >
> > Feed          MB   # prod
> > -----------+----+----------+--------------------------------------------------
> > all        87121  7598469
> >
> >
> > Sites being fed from motherlode:
> >
> > Machine                    Feed Type(s)
> > --------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
> > atm.geo.nsf.gov            FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS|MCIDAS
> > cirrus.al.noaa.gov         FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS|MCIDAS
> > meteora.ucsd.edu           FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS|MCIDAS
> > navier.meteo.psu.edu       FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > shemp.unidata.ucar.edu     MCIDAS
> > sirocco.srcc.lsu.edu       DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > sleet.wunderground.com     DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > snow.cit.cornell.edu       FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > squall.atmos.uiuc.edu      FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > stokes.metr.ou.edu         FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > sunny.atmos.washington.edu FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > sunset.meteor.wisc.edu     FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS
> > thelma.ucar.edu            FSL2|DDPLUS|IDS|HDS|MCIDAS
> >
> > air.atmos.washington.edu   NMC2|SPARE
> > cirp.met.utah.edu          NMC2|SPARE
> > cyclone.atmo.arizona.edu   NMC2
> > flip.unidata.ucar.edu      NMC2
> > flood.atmos.uiuc.edu       NMC2
> > navier.meteo.psu.edu       NMC2
> > omega.fsl.noaa.gov         NMC2
> >
> > Tom
> > --
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> 
> 
> Linda Miller - address@hidden
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