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Hi Fred, I just wanted to update you on the status of GOES ingest here at UCAR/Unidata... Here is the latest: Machine Data being ingested -----------------------------+--------------------------------- goessouth.unidata.ucar.edu GOES-14 (during science checkout) goeseast.unidata.ucar.edu GOES-East (currently GOES-12) goeswest.unidata.ucar.edu GOES-West (currently GOES-11) In case you haven't read the Unidata eLetter this month or been following NESDIS' announcements, here is the plan for GOES South American surveillance: - NOAA plans to transition GOES-12 out of GOES-East service and into dedicated South America service by the beginning of June - on January 19 GOES-13 will be taken out of on-orbit storage. It will begin executing a GOES-East scan schedule by January 25, 2010 while being drifted to 75W longitude - when GOES-13 becomes GOES-East on April 14, GOES-12 will be moved to 60W longitude and begin providing South America service by May 11 Our plans are: - continue to ingest GOES-East/West data for the foreseeable future - switch ingest on goessouth.unidata.ucar.edu from GOES-14 to GOES-12 when GOES-13 takes over GOES-East duties and GOES-12 is repurposed to South American surveillance How long GOES-14 will stay activated is uncertain, but it is likely to be put back into storage in January as science checkout comes to a close. To make ADDE dataset names more obvious, I created the group CENTRAL on goessouth.unidata.ucar.edu. I am personally using this instead of SOUTH even though SOUTH is still defined: CENTRAL/ALL CENTRAL/CONUS CENTRAL/NH CENTRAL/SH CENTRAL/FD CENTRAL/OTHER Just thought you would be interested... Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ZFH-826593 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Closed