Status Report-SuomiNet-February 2002

SuomiNet

SuomiNet Status Report: February 2002

Prepared by Jeff Weber

SuomiNet Deployment

Updated Timeline:

Number of sites: ~100 (Currently 86)
Number of active sites = 48 and their info
All operating system disks have been cloned at Dell
First site deployment: March/April 2001
Final site deployment: August 2002
Estimated time for site to deploy SuomiNet hardware: 2-4 Weeks

Data Volume:
- Raw data volume Will approximate .6Mb per Day/Site
- Raw data tentatively designed to be in BINEX Format.
- Precipitable Water Vapor (PWV) Products: 1-2 Kb per Day/Site in netCDF.
- Total Electron Content (TEC) Product: 3-5 Mb per Day (not site specific) in netCDF
- netCDF format is now in use for the value added products of TEC and PWV/IPW
- Slant measurements: 50-100 Kb per Day/Site
Data Processing:

A FORTRAN data reader was developed at Unidata to read the data from the netCDF files.
Near completion of a netCDF to GEMPAK decoder for visualization of data via GEMPAK/GARP

LDM Applications:
- LDM/IDD Software is being applied to gather the raw data from each site
- LDM/IDD Software also applied to distribute post-processing PWV/TEC products to the community
Water Vapor Products Currently Available
- SuomiNet Sites:
  - --http://www.gst.ucar.edu/gpsrg/map_images/COWY_CURRENT.gif Colorado-Wyoming Beta-test
- Other Sites:
  - --Other sites http://www.gst.ucar.edu/gpsrg/realtime.html (NOAA, USGC, and DOT) and description of process and comparison of US products of Total Electron Content and Integrated Precipitable Water(IPW) compared with GOES imagery.

As time progresses (and sites begin delivering data) a map of ALL active SuomiNet sites will be available for point and click access to the products derived from that site (in progress), and any composites that are available, i.e. hemispheric TEC, U.S. IPW, etc..

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