Users Committee Status Report-SuomiNet COMET Case Studies Status Report: March 2001
Prepared by Jeff Weber
For Unidata Users Committee
SuomiNet Prepares for DeploymentUpdated Timeline:
Number of Sites: ~100 (Currently 86)
Currently disks are being 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
Total Electron Content (TEC) Product: 3-5 Mb per Day (not site specific)
netCDF format is being investigated for the value added products of TEC and PWV/IPW.
Slant Measurements: 50-100 Kb per Day/Site
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
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, and any composites that are available, i.e. hemispheric TEC, U.S. IPW, etc..
