Subject: ESPC Notification (Resumption of NOAA-18 SBUV/2 Processing)
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*Details of the Outage:
*On May 22, the NOAA-18 SBUV/2 instrument chopper motor became stuck,
which made it unable to make measurements. Over the last 2 months,
engineers have been trying various things to get the chopped motor
unstuck. On Sun 7/20 the chopper motor began working again. After
reviewing instrument information on Tue 7/22, the instrument was
commanded to discrete mode, which allowed ozone measurements to resume.
Processing was started on 7/23 on our parallel test system. Pull users
can access the data via our DDSTEST system. Initial indications are
that the data look reasonable, but after being shut off for 2 months, we
must check the instrument calibration. If all looks good, we will
resume production of N18 SBUV/2 ozone products on the operational system
early next week.
For more information contact Donna McNamara at donna.mcnamara@noaa.gov
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Donna P. McNamara
Physical Scientist
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD/SSD/PIB
5200 Auth Rd., Rm 510 Camp Springs MD 20746
Phone: (301)763-8142x145
Fax: (301)899-9196
*Data Affected by the Outage:
*NOAA-18 SBUV/2
*Date and Time of the Outage:
*5/22/2008
*Length of the Outage:
*Until further notice* *
*Contact Point for Questions:
ESPC Operations OCL (Operations Crew Leader), 301-817-3880 *
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Details of the Outage:
On May 22, the NOAA-18 SBUV/2 instrument chopper motor became
stuck, which made it unable to make measurements. Over the last 2
months, engineers have been trying various things to get the chopped
motor unstuck. On Sun 7/20 the chopper motor began working again.
After reviewing instrument information on Tue 7/22, the instrument was
commanded to discrete mode, which allowed ozone measurements to
resume. Processing was started on 7/23 on our parallel test system.
Pull users can access the data via our DDSTEST system. Initial
indications are that the data look reasonable, but after being shut off
for 2 months, we must check the instrument calibration. If all looks
good, we will resume production of N18 SBUV/2 ozone products on the
operational system early next week.
For more information contact Donna McNamara at donna.mcnamara@noaa.gov
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Donna P. McNamara
Physical Scientist
NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD/SSD/PIB
5200 Auth Rd., Rm 510 Camp Springs MD 20746
Phone: (301)763-8142x145
Fax: (301)899-9196
Data Affected by the Outage:
NOAA-18 SBUV/2
Date and Time of the Outage:
5/22/2008
Length of the Outage:
Until further notice
Contact Point for Questions:
ESPC Operations OCL (Operations Crew Leader), 301-817-3880
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