>From: Unidata Support <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200307301619.h6UGJWLd013737 IDD NIMAGE ldm-mcidas pngg2gini >zlibg2gini Hsie, The GOES-West, Zlib-compressed, NOAAPORT GINI images are now being uncompressed and filed correctly on blizzard: Jul 30 17:44:01 pngg2gini[26982]: Starting Up Jul 30 17:44:01 pngg2gini[26982]: output file pathname: data/sat/gini/RADAR/4km/ntp/ntp_20030730_1738 Jul 30 17:44:01 pngg2gini[26982]: unPNG:: 119679 888533 7.4243 Jul 30 17:44:01 pngg2gini[26982]: Exiting Jul 30 17:45:39 zlibg2gini[28965]: Starting Up Jul 30 17:45:39 zlibg2gini[28965]: output file pathname: data/sat/gini/WEST-CONUS/1km/VIS/VIS_20030730_1740 Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28966]: Starting Up Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28966]: output file pathname: data/sat/gini/WEST-CONUS/4km/3.9/3.9_20030730_1740 Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28967]: Starting Up Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28967]: output file pathname: data/sat/gini/WEST-CONUS/8km/WV/WV_20030730_1740 Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28968]: Starting Up Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28968]: output file pathname: data/sat/gini/WEST-CONUS/4km/IR/IR_20030730_1740 Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28967]: unZlib:: 59091 353083 5.9752 Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28967]: Exiting Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28966]: unZlib:: 527761 1409633 2.6710 Jul 30 17:45:46 zlibg2gini[28966]: Exiting Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28968]: unZlib:: 509557 1409633 2.7664 Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28968]: Exiting Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28969]: Starting Up Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28969]: output file pathname: data/sat/gini/WEST-CONUS/4km/12.0/12.0_20030730_1740 Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28965]: unZlib:: 9600552 22532933 2.3470 Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28965]: Exiting Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28969]: unZlib:: 499986 1409633 2.8193 Jul 30 17:45:47 zlibg2gini[28969]: Exiting Apparently, there was a sequence of bad images being sent in NOAAPORT. I say this based on the 16:45Z image: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/tom/noaaport/goeswest_zlib.gif This image was accessed by ADDE from your server stratus.al.noaa.gov a few minutes ago. I loaded the same image from two other ADDE NIMAGE servers and got the exact same picture. I will keep an eye on the decoding of the Zlib-compressed images to make sure that zlibg2gini is working correctly, and make any adjustments to the code if necessary (although it has been running here at the UPC for over a month with no apparent problems). By the way, the next Unidata releases of McIDAS and GEMPAK will support use of the Zlib-compressed images directly. After those packages get installed, you may want to change the pqact.conf actions on rainbow and blizzard to FILE the products instead of decoding them. The savings in disk space will likely be desirable. The new releases should be ready for download within the next one to two weeks if not sooner. Tom
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