Update #1: This is a reminder for the updates for MIRS on October 29, 2020. Please note changes in red below.

 

Topic: Scheduled Updates for MIRS

 

Date/Time Issued: October 21, 2020 1340 UTC

 

Product(s) or Data Impacted:  MIRS products from POES, Metop, DMSP, GPM and Megha-Tropiques

 

Date/Time of Initial Impact: October 29, 2020 1500 UTC

 

Impacts on Users and Significance: The v11r2 to v11r4 version update should be transparent to users. The users who are still pulling the MIRS Low-Res products need take action to switch to the MIRS high resolution products.

Details/Specifics of Change: 

 

 The following changes are scheduled on October 29, 2020

 

 

 

 

Current filenames:

File Name:  NPR-MIRS-IMG_v11r2_*

File Name:  NPR-MIRS-SND_v11r2_*

 

Updated filenames:

File Name:  NPR-MIRS-IMG_v11r4_*

File Name:  NPR-MIRS-SND_v11r4_*

 

Test data available: https://satepsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/pub/product/mirs/HighRes/ncdf/

 

There are no changes to the MIRS S-NPP and N20 files, and no change to the PDA shortnames.

 

Terminated MIRS low-res products

PDA Shortnames  

File Names

MIRS_Daily_MAP-LowRes

NPR.MIRS.V7.IMG.CMAP.*.he4

MIRS_IMG_Products-LowRes

NPR.MIRS.V7.IMG.AAMH.*.he4

NPR.MIRS.V7.IMG.SSMIS.*.he4

MIRS_SND_Products-LowRes

NPR.MIRS.V7.SND.AAMH.*.he4

NPR.MIRS.V7.SND.SSMIS.*.he4

MIRS_IMG_Products-LowRes_netCDF

NPR.MIRS.V7.IMG.AAMH.*.nc

NPR.MIRS.V7.IMG.SSMIS.*.nc

MIRS_SND_Products-LowRes_netCDF

NPR.MIRS.V7.SND.AAMH.*.nc

NPR.MIRS.V7.SND.SSMIS.*.nc

 

Terminated MIRS Megha-Tropiques products

PDA Shortnames  

File Names

MIRS_High_Resolution_IMG

NPR_MIRS_MT1_IMG*.nc

 

 

The plan is to promote the changes into the NESDIS Operations on October 29, 2019. Please let us know at your earliest convenient if you have any issue for the upcoming updates.  


Contact Information for Further Information: 

For information on the status of this work, please contact ESPC Operations at ESPCOperations@noaa.gov and 301-817-3880 or Product Area Lead (Limin.Zhao@noaa.gov)

 

Web Site(s) for applicable information:

https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/atmosphere/mirs/index.html