Looks like I did jump the gun and jinxed it. They just reverted these
changes, scale_factor is back to what is was and the black pixel
problem has returned.
I get it, non-operational and what have you. Looks like they're still
changing things; I guess I'll take it as a good sign that it's finally
being addressed and eventually it'll stay fixed.
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Mike Zuranski
Meteorology Support Analyst
College of DuPage - Nexlab
Weather.cod.edu
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Mike Zuranski <zuranski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I hope I'm not jumping the gun too much here, but it appears the black
> pixel problem has finally been resolved! Watching a loop of visible
> imagery just now, I noticed a slight change taking place at 17Z today,
> including a tweak to the scale and no more black pixels. Upon further
> inspection, the netCDF variable Sectorized_CMI:scale_factor changed
> from 0.0002442 to 0.00031746 at that time.
>
> I'm noticing this change for bands 1, 2 and 3. This also makes the
> new valid range for the visible bands 0.0 to 1.3.
>
> Hooray!!
>
> -Mike
>
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> Mike Zuranski
> Meteorology Support Analyst
> College of DuPage - Nexlab
> Weather.cod.edu
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