| Subject: | SGP/GOES/X1 - GOES-water retrieval system failed |
| DataStreams: | sgpg12profB4.a1, sgpgaeriprofB5.c1, sgpgaeriprofB6.c1, sgpg12profX1.00, sgpgaeriprofB4.c1,
sgpg12profB1.a1, sgpg12profB5.a1, sgpgaeriprofB1.c1, sgpgaeriprofC1.c1,
sgpg12profB6.a1, sgpg12profC1.a1
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| Description: | On 2004-03-06, the computer at U.Wisconsin, that processes the GOES vertical sounder data
and retrieves water-vapor profiles, failed.
Data are permanently lost. |
| Suggestions: | |
| Measurements: | sgpgaeriprofB1.c1: - lon(lon)
- Initial surface pressure used in retrieval(init_pressure)
- Initial surface absolute temperature used in retrieval(init_temperature)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
- Initial water vapor mixing ratio used in retrieval(init_waterVaporMixingRatio)
- Flag indicating aeri retrieval status(status_flag)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- Total precipitable water vapor, from Microwave Radiometer(totalPrecipitalWater)
- Height(height)
- Cloud base height used during retrieval(cloudBaseHeight)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Flag indicating where the initial surface water measurements are from: 0-> SMOS,
1-> AERI(water_flag) - Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
- Flag indicating which instruments were available and provided input for the
retrieval(input_flag) - Derived pressure(pressure)
- Initial surface dewpoint temperature used in retrieval(init_dewpointTemperature)
- Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
more
sgpg12profB1.a1: - Retrieval Type(ret_type)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Dew Point Temperature(dew_pt)
- Environmental Temperature (hybrid-b grid)(temp)
- lon(lon)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- altitude(altitude)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
more
sgpgaeriprofC1.c1: - Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
- Initial surface pressure used in retrieval(init_pressure)
- Flag indicating which instruments were available and provided input for the
retrieval(input_flag) - Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- Initial surface absolute temperature used in retrieval(init_temperature)
- Initial water vapor mixing ratio used in retrieval(init_waterVaporMixingRatio)
- Initial surface dewpoint temperature used in retrieval(init_dewpointTemperature)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- Total precipitable water vapor, from Microwave Radiometer(totalPrecipitalWater)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Flag indicating where the initial surface water measurements are from: 0-> SMOS,
1-> AERI(water_flag) - Flag indicating aeri retrieval status(status_flag)
- Cloud base height used during retrieval(cloudBaseHeight)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- Height(height)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- lon(lon)
- Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
more
sgpgaeriprofB4.c1: - lon(lon)
- Flag indicating which instruments were available and provided input for the
retrieval(input_flag) - Initial surface absolute temperature used in retrieval(init_temperature)
- Flag indicating aeri retrieval status(status_flag)
- Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
- Cloud base height used during retrieval(cloudBaseHeight)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Height(height)
- Initial surface dewpoint temperature used in retrieval(init_dewpointTemperature)
- Initial surface pressure used in retrieval(init_pressure)
- Flag indicating where the initial surface water measurements are from: 0-> SMOS,
1-> AERI(water_flag) - Total precipitable water vapor, from Microwave Radiometer(totalPrecipitalWater)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- Initial water vapor mixing ratio used in retrieval(init_waterVaporMixingRatio)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
- Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
more
sgpgaeriprofB5.c1: - lon(lon)
- Initial water vapor mixing ratio used in retrieval(init_waterVaporMixingRatio)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
- Initial surface dewpoint temperature used in retrieval(init_dewpointTemperature)
- Flag indicating which instruments were available and provided input for the
retrieval(input_flag) - Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
- Flag indicating where the initial surface water measurements are from: 0-> SMOS,
1-> AERI(water_flag) - Initial surface pressure used in retrieval(init_pressure)
- Cloud base height used during retrieval(cloudBaseHeight)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- Flag indicating aeri retrieval status(status_flag)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Total precipitable water vapor, from Microwave Radiometer(totalPrecipitalWater)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- Height(height)
- Initial surface absolute temperature used in retrieval(init_temperature)
- Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
more
sgpgaeriprofB6.c1: - Height(height)
- lon(lon)
- Cloud base height used during retrieval(cloudBaseHeight)
- Flag indicating where the initial surface water measurements are from: 0-> SMOS,
1-> AERI(water_flag) - Flag indicating aeri retrieval status(status_flag)
- Initial water vapor mixing ratio used in retrieval(init_waterVaporMixingRatio)
- Total precipitable water vapor, from Microwave Radiometer(totalPrecipitalWater)
- Flag indicating which instruments were available and provided input for the
retrieval(input_flag) - Interpolated dewpoint temperature(dewpointTemperature)
- Initial surface pressure used in retrieval(init_pressure)
- Initial surface absolute temperature used in retrieval(init_temperature)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- Temperature used for calculation(temperature)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- Initial surface dewpoint temperature used in retrieval(init_dewpointTemperature)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- Interpolated water vapor mixing ratio(waterVaporMixingRatio)
more
sgpg12profB5.a1: - Retrieval Type(ret_type)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Environmental Temperature (hybrid-b grid)(temp)
- lon(lon)
- Dew Point Temperature(dew_pt)
- altitude(altitude)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
more
sgpg12profC1.a1: - Retrieval Type(ret_type)
- lon(lon)
- Dew Point Temperature(dew_pt)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- altitude(altitude)
- Environmental Temperature (hybrid-b grid)(temp)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- North Latitude(lat)
more
sgpg12profB4.a1: - Retrieval Type(ret_type)
- Dew Point Temperature(dew_pt)
- Environmental Temperature (hybrid-b grid)(temp)
- base time in epoch(base_time)
- lon(lon)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- altitude(altitude)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- North Latitude(lat)
more
sgpg12profB6.a1: - base time in epoch(base_time)
- Environmental Temperature (hybrid-b grid)(temp)
- Retrieval Type(ret_type)
- -180.0 - +180.0(alt)
- Time offset from base_time(time_offset)
- North Latitude(lat)
- Dew Point Temperature(dew_pt)
- lon(lon)
- altitude(altitude)
- Derived pressure(pressure)
more
sgpg12profX1.00: - (Raw data stream - documentation not supported)
more
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