All operating system disks have been cloned at Dell
First site deployment: March/April 2001
Final site deployment: August-October 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.
A netCDF to GEMPAK decoder for visualization of data via GEMPAK/GARP has been completed
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 main page that contains the UNIDATA LDM/IDD GEMPAK 14 hour loops of PWV with an 8km IR Super-National overlay, and archived historical products from these loops.
There are two loops, one that filters out sites (no overlap) for ease of viewing, and another that includes ALL sites and can be zoomed in for ease of viewing. Both these products are combining SuomiNet sensors with sensors of other agencies, giving a total of 125 reporting locations.
--http://www.gst.ucar.edu/gpsrg/realtime (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. This site also contains archived loops of the IHOP field campaign, ionospheric TEC, MPEG animations, and other products.
A map of ALL active SuomiNet sites is available for point and click access to the data products derived from that site.
