Hi Daniel,
Thank you for that update, definitely explains it. It's been a while and I
didn't know what that current data flow paradigm was, I'll make a note of
that.
Best,
-Mike
On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM Daniel Forrest <dforrest@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike and Pete,
>
> The Unidata GRB feed is a combination of the raw Unidata feed and the
> UW GRB feed. The combined feed fills in any holes due to RFI at
> either site. So the path is:
>
> Unidata -> UW -> combined data -> Unidata
>
>
> UW is currently experiencing network issues sending data to the
> outside world and this is causing the large dropouts.
>
> I have notified Unidata and hopefully they can switch to their raw GRB
> data until this issue is resolved.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2025 at 01:24:40PM -0400, Mike Zuranski wrote:
> > OH, I thought you noticed this through Wisc's GRB as well. I'll just
> back
> > away now, hopefully someone there can shed some more light.
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM Pete Pokrandt <poker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure this is an upstream issue, for exactly your reasoning -
> those
> > > other sites don't seem to be affected, and they must be using GRB
> data, but
> > > maybe not from the Unidata source?
> > >
> > > Doesn't the Unidata GRB data feed originate from some dishes up by the
> > > mesa lab? I'm thinking it's something with this particular Unidata
> > > processing, rather than an upstream data issue.
> > >
> > > Maybe wind? or smoke? or dish alignment? or ?? I don't know the
> details of
> > > the processing but that's my gut feeling, that it's something with the
> data
> > > processing between the Unidata dishes and the SATELLITE data feed
> origin
> > > box..
> > >
> > > Pete
> > >
> > > Pete Pokrandt - System Engineer IV
> > > UW-Madison Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
> > > 608-262-3086 - poker@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ------------------------------
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