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[IDD #BJB-483073]: GOES WEST-CONUS 8km WV data

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  • Subject: [IDD #BJB-483073]: GOES WEST-CONUS 8km WV data
  • Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:45:01 -0600
Hi Minna,

re:
> We are no longer receiving any WEST-CONUS 8km WV data (as of
> 12/06/2011).  We are still receiving the 4km and we have not changed our
> pqact.conf entry (which we used to obtain all available grid resolutions):
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> NIMAGE  ^satz/ch./GOES-(1[0-9])/(VIS|IR|WV)/(........)
> (....)/(SUPER-NATIONAL|EAST-CONUS|WEST-CONUS)/(.km)/ FILE    -close
> /d1/adds/system/ldmIngest/satellite/\5/\2/
> \6/\3/\2_\3_\4.z
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Has the product feed type changed or is our pqact.conf entry incorrect?

Probably neither.  Since GOES-West (now GOES-15) now provides 4 km WV, I
would assume that the Weather Service has turned off the creation of
the 8 km product for the NOAAPort SBN (the images in the IDD NIMAGE
datastream are the images in the NOAAPort SBN).

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: BJB-483073
Department: Support IDD
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed