From luis.gonzalez at oma.be  Fri Mar  3 13:37:22 2006
From: luis.gonzalez at oma.be (Luis Gonzalez)
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 14:37:22 +0100
Subject: [ROLSS] V998
Message-ID: <200603031437.22333.luis.gonzalez@oma.be>

Dear GIST members,

you can find the reprocessing of version V998 in the directory G2_REPROC/V998.
Two weeks have been reprocessed: 21->28 June 2004 and 11->18 December 2004.
A new naming convention has been implemented (old name->new name):
G2_SEV1_L20S -> G2_SEV1_L20_ARG_SOL
G2_SEV1_L20L -> G2_SEV1_L20_ARG_TH
G2_SEV1_L15G_SW -> G2_SEV1_L15_GEO_SW
G2_SEV1_L15G_SW -> G2_SEV1_L15_GEO_SW
G2_SEV1_L20L_M15_R50 -> G2_SEV1_L20_BARG_TH_M15_R50
G2_SEV1_L20S_M15_R50 -> G2_SEV1_L20_BARG_SOL_M15_R50
G2_SEV1_L20G_M15_R50 -> G2_SEV1_L20_BARG_GEO_M15_R50

Remember that ARG files are named according to the time of the main NANRG file 
used to create it.

Best regards,

Luis Gonzalez
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Luis Gonzalez

Section t?l?d?tection depuis l'espace
D?partement observations
Institut Royal M?t?orologique de Belgique,
Avenue Circulaire 3, 1180 Uccle, Belgium.

phone        : + 32 2373 06 99  
fax          : + 32 2374 67 88
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From Steven.Dewitte at oma.be  Tue Mar 28 14:20:44 2006
From: Steven.Dewitte at oma.be (Steven Dewitte)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 16:20:44 +0200
Subject: [ROLSS] GERB data release
Message-ID: <200603281620.44661.Steven.Dewitte@oma.be>

Dear GERB data user,

We are pleased to announce the first release of GERB data useable for 
scientific studies.  From today onwards the near real time data processing 
for GERB on MSG-1 will be frozen.  The near real time data will be called 
version 3 (V003) and will be available for ARG, BARG and SHI products.

A quality assesment of the ARG products has been made, and the results are
currently being documented into a Quality summary document. This will be
available in 40 days along with updated userguides, at which time an
edition 1 climate data set release of the Level 2 ARG and Level 1.5 NANRG
products will be made from the GGSPS archive
(http://ggsps.rl.ac.uk). 

Users must ensure they have read this Quality summary document before
drawing scientific conclusions from the data, or submitting publications
using the data for peer review. Agreement to this is implicit in access to 
either the near real time or climate archive GERB products. 

Edition 1 data will appear in the archive after a 40 day validation
period, that will ensure any products with obvious artefacts are excluded
from the climate archive. Intially Edition 1 data will only be available
for level 2 ARG products and level 1.5 NANRG products.

Edition 1 data will be reprocessed backwards in time back to mid 2003.  
Currently we expect to reprocess two months of data in one calendar month.

To assure the smooth transition for automated programs using the GERB data, 
the production of the version 2 (V02) data will be continued during at least 
one week in its normal 'G2' directory and using the normal HDF5 library.  
The level 3 is produced in a parallel directory 'G2_V003' with an updated 
subdirectory structure.  The new subdirectory names are easier to understand 
then the old ones.
The level 3 products are written using the new HDF5 library, version 1.6.5.
After the transition period the old directory 'G2' will dissapear and the 
directory 'G2_V003' will be renamed to 'G2'. 
 
Best regards,
 
GERB Project team