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| Notification of New Data Stream |
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This is your notification of a new data stream that we will be distributing
from the XDC to the Archive.
The following information should fully describe the new data stream. If you
have any questions about this, please send them to the sender of this message.
Sending to:
_x_ Archive (raw data)
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No. Data Stream Frequency File Size(bytes)
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1 twpavhrrX1.00 4~6/day ~50,000,000
2. twpavhrrkwajX1.00 4~6/day ~50,000,000
3. twpavhrrkwajnnX1.a1 4~6/day ~30,000
4. twpavhrrkklacmanX1.a1 4~6/day ~5,789,940
5. twpavhrrkklacnauX1.a1 4~6/day ~5,789,940
6. twpavhrrhovmullerlacX1.a1 1/month ~839,680
7. twpavhrrdarX1.00 4~6/day ~77,797,200
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Data stream Name(s) and Comments:
No.1: twpavhrrX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.nkk.yyjjj.hhmm
twpavhrrX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.nkk.yyjjj.hhmm was
provided by a receiving station ARM installed in the Port Moresby weather
office. The data is 1km resolution.
No.2 twpavhrrkwajX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.nkk.yyjjj.hhmm.mcidas.gz
Avhrr data in MCIDAS format. where nkk = 12,14,15,16,17
No.3 twpavhrrkwajkkX1.a1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.gif
Avhrr image data in GIF format. where kk = 12,14,15,16,17
No.4 twpavhrrkklacmanX1.a1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.hdf
Avhrr data in HDF format. It covers Manus Island. Where kk = 12,14,15,16,17
No.5 twpavhrrkklacnauX1.a1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.hdf
Avhrr data in HDF format. It covers Nauru Island. Where kk = 12,14,15,16,17
No.6 twpavhrrhovmullerlacX1.a1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.gif.tar
The tar file contains the following individual file:
twpavhrrnnchklacsiteX1.a1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.gg.gif
where nn = 12,14,15,16 and 17
k= 1,2,3,4,5
site = man,nau
gg = lat or lon
They are Hovmuller diagrams generated from the diagnostic files.
No.7 twpavhrrdarX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.nkk.asda
Avhrr data in Australian Satellite Data Archive format. where nkk = n15,n16,n17 or fy1d
Source Instrument(s):
External Data Source: No.1 is from the receiving station ARM installed in
the Port Moresby weather office
No.2 and No.3 are as provided by Aeromet Inc from a
receiver in Kwajalein
No.4-6 are from University of Miami.
No.7 is from The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
Instrument Mentor(s): Peter Minnett
Transfer Schedule:
We are planning to send backlog files of
twpavhrrkklacmanX1.a1 and twpavhrrkklacmanX1.a1 starting on
03/05/2004. We then will transfer files on a monthly basis.
Additional Notes:
twpavhrrkwajX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.nkk.yyjjj.hhmm.mcidas.gz and
twpavhrrkwajkkX1.a1.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.gif are provided by Aeromet Inc.,
the company that operates the satellite receiving station at the
Missile Range on Kwajalein, to provide AVHRR HRPT (1km) coverage of the
Nauru site.
where yyyymmdd are the year, month and day of the file
hhmmss are the hour, minute and second of the file.
yyjjj is the Julian date of the file
kk = 12,14,15,16,17
We only have the data
twpavhrrX1.00.yyyymmdd.hhmmss.raw.nkk.yyjjj.hhmm data
covering 19970129- 19971209. But coverage is spotty. The receiving
antenna and hardware was abandoned in place in a defunct state and
this data stream and this datastream has not and will not produced
any data since 1997-12-09.
We have data No.2 - No.6 covering 20000706 - present. Please see
http://www.arm.gov/docs/xds/static/avhrr.html for the details