missing NCEP file for doy 058

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missing NCEP file for doy 058

by slwood » Mon Mar 14, 2022 8:17 am America/New_York

Hey guys,

any thoughts on the missing 00 & 06 NCEP met files from 2022-058:

N202205800_MET_NCEP_6h.hdf
N202205806_MET_NCEP_6h.hdf

this is causing an outage in our reprocessing... ;-)

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Re: missing NCEP file for doy 058

by slwood » Tue Mar 15, 2022 12:59 am America/New_York

To clarify, these files are not reported as available via the oceandata search utility: https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/api/file_search nor are they visible on the direct access web page https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/directaccess/Ancillary/Meteorological/2022/058/

Following advice in response to a similar recent query (viewtopic.php?t=2991&sid=982d0e2c8f936d478850e90e89023ffb) I find the files _are_ available via the https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ob/getfile/ url. Does this reflect a change in preferred access method?

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Re: missing NCEP file for doy 058

by slwood » Tue Mar 15, 2022 1:23 am America/New_York

Further, I now find that the files are also available via the usual getfile url: https://oceandata.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/getfile/<filename> but still not showing in the search utility results.

This is a problem since I have previously been advised (Sean Bailey) to use the search utility in preference to simply calling getfile on the files I expect to be available and ignoring 404s from files not available yet. So my download scripts only ask for files that appear in the listing returned from the file_search utility, hence I did not get these files even though they were actually available.

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Re: missing NCEP file for doy 058

by OB.DAAC - amscott » Tue Mar 22, 2022 2:19 pm America/New_York

The files are available from the places you tried. All the methods you mentioned are still viable methods to find your data.

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