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Next up on the reprocessing list is Terra-MODIS, to be followed by SNPP-VIIRS and then NOAA20-VIIRS.
Hopefully, Terra-MODIS will be done by the end of August, early Sept for SNPP-VIIRS and late Sept for NOAA20-VIIRS...just don't hold me to those dates

Sean

Julian, I was reminded by the production staff that with the filenames now having NRT in them, the confusion around quicklook and refined was eliminated, so the version element in the metadata would no longer need the QL[P] modifier. Seems that clarification caused confusion :( Prior to having a ver...

Do not have directories with spaces in the name. Rename "Modis Data" to not include a space and it should work.

Sean

Julian, As you noted, with the R2022 reprocessing we are including ".NRT" in the filename for, well, near real-time data. This is the equivalent of the previous QL (and QLP) designation. There will only be one "quicklook" (NRT) product produced prior to the final (is it ever fina...

The CLDICE flag is an ocean color flag, not a SST flag. Cloud masking is entirely different for SST (and differs a bit between day and night). For SST, unless you have a reason to do otherwise, you should use the quality flags (qual_sst) for selecting good quality SST retrievals. There is an flags_s...

Luke, Vicarious gains are always applied, although sometimes they are just a bunch of 1s ;) The values are in the $OCDATAROOT/<sensor>[/platform]/msl12_defaults.par file The issue you noticed was not a misapplication of the gains (well, not directly), but rather a change in the default gaseous absor...

Jay, No, this is not related to any power outage, just a cascade of failures related to a hardware issue with our database servers. We are *mostly* (if not fully by the time you read this) back to normal...but I say that with some caution as every time I say something like that the computers make me...

Andrew, No investigation is necessary since we know exactly where the problem lies. Earlier this week our database servers suffered a hardware related failure. While we were able to restore them relatively quickly, we discovered another issue that prevented bringing them back to full operational cap...

Yuyuan,

It is not you...our servers suffered a hardware related failure and are currently undergoing unschedule maintenance. We hope to restore services later today (12 July 2022).

Regards,
Sean

The short answer is yes, the temporal calibration (including detector/mirror-side striping) will be much improved with the upcoming reprocessing for VIIRS (on both SNPP and NOAA-20). So, also yes, what you're seeing is instrument artifacts in VIIRS. MODIS-Aqua is next up in the reprocessing hopper, ...