Now, however, you can designate any station or any suite of stations in a data subscription. If you subscribe to a station that is not currently sending data, you will receive data from that station as soon as we receive it. Also along for the meeting were Bill Teng, team lead for TRMM data at the DAAC, and George Serafino, the DAAC Data Manager. We hope to meet with many SeaWiFS data users at the meeting for discussions on how we can better meet the various needs of ocean color researchers around the world. Several trainees from each session took a tour of the DAAC operations, including an in-depth presentation on the DAAC facilities and operations.
Several factors weigh into the decision.
For limited numbers of files, low data volumes, and a fast data transfer rate, FTP is probably the best alternative. Subscriptions that are filled on a daily basis can also work best by FTP, though the size of level 3 binned files may be a bit large for electronic transfer. The DAAC offers parameter subsetting for level 3 data files, but this function is not yet available for subscriptions. HRPT data files range from approximately 50-70 MB in size, which works via FTP for some and not for others. Our suggestion here is to order an HRPT file for FTP transfer and check to see if it comes across the Internet successfully.