Re: [visad] Fwd: MTSAT Data Quality

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• Subject: Re: [visad] Fwd: MTSAT Data Quality
• From: "Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate)" <don.murray@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:28:48 -0600

Hi Tony-

Don

On 9/30/15 3:27 PM, Tony Wimmers wrote:

Hi, Bill I assume? I have a question that might intrigue you:

The recent news from the datacenter (below) makes it sound like Himawari
files may not be supported by VisAD. I’ve been using classes like
AreaFile from visad.jar for many years now to retrieve geo satellite
data for my tropical cyclone analysis algorithms. It’s been an easy way
to port areafile readers into Matlab.

How do you think this might work out with the change to Himawari, and
then with GOES-R etc. next year?

Thanks,

Tony Wimmers
Assistant Scientist
Tropical Cyclones Group
SSEC/CIMSS

Begin forwarded message:

*From: *Datacenter <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
*Subject: **MTSAT Data Quality*
*Date: *September 30, 2015 at 2:22:25 PM MDT
*To: *<dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
*Reply-To: *<dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>


Our MTSAT-2 data is currently experiencing intermittent quality issues
due to a local antenna hardware issue.  The problem is being looked into.

Reminder:

MTSAT-2 will be discontinued in November.  Himawari replaced MTSAT-2
as operational satellite on 7 July 2015.  Information on how to access
the Himawari from our server is appended below.

Rosie


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Himawari-8 Data Available via McIDAS
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 09:10:39 -0500
From: Datacenter <dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
Reply-To: dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:dcusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Himawari-8, positioned at 140E, is now available from the SSEC Data
Center.

Requirements to access this data:

1.  McIDAS 2015.1 will be required, see:

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/software/x/fastrack2015.1_unix.html

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/softwar/x/fastrack2015.1_unix.html


2.  A valid McIDAS User ID and project number.

---

Near Real-time Server and ADDE Group information:

Server:

himawari.ssec.wisc.edu <http://himawari.ssec.wisc.edu>   (128.104.110.135)


ADDE Groups:

 HIMAWARI  - This group will contain a 2 day loop of completed images

 HIMAWARX  - This group will contain incomplete images. There may be
             issues serving this data.


DATALOC's to access the real-time:

DATALOC ADD HIMAWARI HIMAWARI.SSEC.WISC.EDU
<http://HIMAWARI.SSEC.WISC.EDU>
DATALOC ADD HIMAWARX HIMAWARI.SSEC.WISC.EDU
<http://HIMAWARI.SSEC.WISC.EDU>


DATASETs:

ALL          ALL Himawari8 data
FD           Full Disk Himawari8 data
JAPAN        Japan Sector Himawari8 data (currently not available)
TARGET       Target Sector Himawari8 data


---

General Schedule Information:

Full Disks are sent every 10 minutes (ie. 0000, 0010, 0020 ... ) , with
the exception of 0240UTC and 1440UTC, when the Full Disk is cancelled
for  maintenance.

Target Regions are sent every 2.5 minutes.  Target sectors are not
affected by the maintenance period.



---

Archive Server:

geoarc.ssec.wisc.edu <http://geoarc.ssec.wisc.edu>   (IP 128.104.109.243)


Archive ADDE Group:   AHIM08

Datasets:     same as real-time



Regards,

Rosie

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  • [visad] Fwd: MTSAT Data Quality
    • From: Tony Wimmers