Re: Can you recommend a netCDF convention for satellite time series data?

  • To: David Wilensky <davidw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Can you recommend a netCDF convention for satellite time series data?
  • From: Ken Tanaka <Ken.Tanaka@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 13:34:34 -0600
Hi David,

Yes, I would be interested in seeing the ncdump -h of your format. If it
is very large, you can send it to just me rather than the email list. Is
your data type a geomagnetic time series?

Thanks,
Ken

David Wilensky wrote:
> We use a derivative of netCDF but the format will apply to netCDF as
> well.  Would you like me to send you the equivalent of an ncdump -h of
> our format?
>
> Regards,
> David Wilensky 
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Caron
> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 9:53 AM
> To: Ken Tanaka
> Cc: netcdfgroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Can you recommend a netCDF convention for satellite time
> series data?
>
> Hi Ken:
>
> I dont know anything about this kind of data, but
>
>   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/BestPractices.html
>
> is worth reading.
>
> When you have a format, I'd be happy to comment on it.
>
> Ken Tanaka wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We are planning to archive geomagnetic time series data from 
>> geostationary satellites. The data are measured on GOES geostationary 
>> satellites, and consist mainly of 4 floating point values, 3 component
>>     
>
>   
>> vectors and 1 total magnetic intensity. The data are available at two 
>> frequency formats, half second (512 ms) and 1 minute. We will be 
>> converting a simple binary format into the netCDF standard for
>>     
> archive.
>   
>> Does anyone here recommend a netCDF convention for this type of data? 
>> If there is not a geomagnetic convention for netCDF, what would be the
>>     
> closest?
>   
>> For navigation, the measurements are in-situ, but not located near the
>>     
>
>   
>> surface of the Earth. The component intensities are measuring magnetic
>>     
>
>   
>> field at the satellite, but they are defined in terms of North, East, 
>> and Earth-ward. The satellites are geostationary, but there can be 
>> very slight orbital inclination variations of less than .5 degrees, 
>> and ground control can choose to alter the longitude as well (normally
>>     
>
>   
>> done only for replacing old satellites with new ones). As far as 
>> visualization tools go, is there any advantage to including the 
>> latitude, longitude and geostationary altitude of 35,786 km? That is, 
>> we could put it on a map, but it's debatable on whether it should be 
>> presented that way.
>>
>> -Ken
>>
>>     
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