Hi, Larry - we are getting plenty of obs here at FSU, from what I can
tell, we are receiving all SM, SI, and SN reports alright. I looked hard
because we use a lot of ship data, too, and had not noticed any outages or
missing data in our raw files. Our gempak processing of them has not
changed either...let us know if you need some data files. We had an
outage for most of the weekend but otherwise our data appear to be in good
shape here.
Paul Ruscher / FSU
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Larry Riddle wrote:
> Has there been a change to the FOS data stream that I missed that affects
> the ship observations? Most of the observations no longer seem to be in
> the stream. I checked the change notices, but didn't see anything.
>
> For example, on 21 Nov, we received 1366 SMxx reports. On 28 Nov, that
> dropped to 26 reports (see table).
>
> Header 21 Nov 28 Nov
> SIxx 553 12
> SNxx 960 32
> SMxx 1366 26
>
> Whatever it was, it appears to have occurred at or about 00Z on 28
> Nov. Here are my ship obs file sizes for the six days before and after the
> 27th:
>
> 1119016 011121.bbx
> 1110809 011122.bbx
> 1157980 011123.bbx
> 1110391 011124.bbx
> 1164305 011125.bbx
> 1102971 011126.bbx
>
> 1092059 011127.bbx
>
> 13724 011128.bbx
> 16763 011129.bbx
> 46534 011130.bbx
> 14527 011201.bbx
> 17674 011202.bbx
> 24223 011203.bbx
>
> Strangely enough (for an "Institution of Oceanography"), we actually do use
> the ship obs extensively. Any assistance here will really be
> appreciated. (i.e., "Help!")
>
> Larry
>
>
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