Thanks for the info. You helped clear things up.
Dave
From: Herbster, Christopher G. [mailto:herbstec@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 1:29 PM
To: David Fitzgerald <David.Fitzgerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
'ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <ldm-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: uniwisc feed receive times
Hi Dave,
The timestamp of the image is the time that the scan began. There are many
different scanning strategies and regions, and each of them takes a different
amount of time to complete.
Speculating that the routine schedule was in place for yesterday, and using
this resource
http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Operations/GOES/east/imager-routine.html, I see that a
typical 1345 UTC image would be the Northern Hemisphere Extended sector, which
takes 14:15 (14.25 minutes) to complete. This image did not complete until
13:59:15. I do not know the magic that occurs to bring the images into the LDM
IDD feed, but there is much less latency than you might think there is given
the time to conduct the sector scan. A full disk image, done every three hours
for WMO data sharing, takes 26:02.
We have a NOAAPort ingest system, so we get some data that way. Those images
are first downloaded to Wallops Island, and then bounce around through some
absurd number of miles to get to our dish. (I really do not know enough about
this to say any more, and may have already stepped outside of an accurate
description.)
I hope this helps,
Chris H.
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[mailto:ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Fitzgerald
Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2017 12:27 PM
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Subject: [ldm-users] uniwisc feed receive times
Hi Everyone,
We have noticed that our UNIWISC feeds seem to be running up to 30 minutes
behind the product creation time. Our weather station people are annoyed the
imagery is so late.
For example, the line shown below is from an `ldmadmin watch -f UNIWISC`
command showing a GOES-13 image:
20170328T141114.365590Z pqutil[29006] INFO pqutil.c:1181:display_watch()
741505 20170328141111.455496 UNIWISC 000 pnga2area Q3 UE 1231 GOES-13_IMG
13.3um 4km 20170328 1345
This shows we got the image at 1411, and was sent to us from our upstream site
only a few seconds earlier. But the image time is for 1345.
Is anyone else seeing this, and is this a normal lag between image creation and
dissemination?
Dave
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David Fitzgerald
Information Technology
Millersville University
Millersville, PA 17551
Phone: 717-871-7436
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