>I'm receiving corrupted NEXRAD Level II files.
>
>I have my own indexing software which works on NEXRAD data files, whether they
>are LDM, tape, or live/RIDDS. Up until today, it has always worked fine.
>Today, it core dumps on some 88D files.
>
>Due to a design flaw in BZIP2 format, there is no way of knowing the length
>of data when it is uncompressed without uncompressing it. As a result, the
>format for LDM has segments that have an encoded length in it followed by
>data. This pattern repeats until the end of the file. This normally up to a
>5 digit number. Today, I'm seeing 10 digit lengths at the corruption point.
>Something is making a mess of the data.
As the saying goes "never mind". It looks like we had a data "glitch" on
one system. Another seems to be clean.
Kevin W. Thomas
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma
Email: kwthomas@xxxxxx
