Re: space products

• To: Simon Elliott <Simon.Elliott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: space products
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:11:50 -0700 (MST)

Simon,

Do you have newer documentation? Because both the NCEP and EUMETSAT docs for 
template 4.3 have bytes 23-34 designated for 1st and 2nd fixed surfaces. I 
understand that these values are probably not used in space products.
robb...

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Simon Elliott wrote:

Hello Robb,

I am glad you are getting further with decoding the data.

From your question about the first and second surface types I get the impression you are 
using Product Definition Template 4.0 to interpret the data.> In fact, when you detected 
"Product Definition : 30 Satellite product", this should trigger you to use 
Product Definition Template 4.30 to interpret Section 4.  There you will find that there are 
no references to first and second surfaces, but rather other information describing the 
satellite data.

You mention that you have never seen a model using these values, but I guess 
this is a simple misunderstanding, as we do not generate these values in any 
case.

I hope this helps.

Regards,

Simon