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[McIDAS #CQG-816764]: GOES-16 LDM feed MDS and CONUS outage

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #CQG-816764]: GOES-16 LDM feed MDS and CONUS outage
  • Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 13:18:52 -0700
Hi Carol,

re:
> As of 18:19 UTC today (Dec. 4th) we stopped receiving CONUS,
> Mesoscale-1, and Mesoscale-2 data. We are still currently getting
> FullDisk and GLM data.
> 
> Are you seeing any outages in your GOES-16 feed? Any other ideas why
> this might be happening?

GOES-16 ABI was put in mode 4 scanning at approximately 18 UTC today.  Mode 4 is
characterized by:

- full disk scans every 5 minutes
- no CONUS scans
- no Mesoscale scans

All non-ABI products (e.g., GLM) are unaffected by ABI scanning mode
changes.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: CQG-816764
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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