Delay of AQUA data

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From Ed Olsen at JPL / AIRS:

On Tuesday August 16, 2011 there will be a significant delay of all the

AQUA data (AIRS, AMSU-A, MODIS, and AMSR-E) processed by OSPO at NOAA's

NSOF facility.  A data temporary outage will occur at 12:00 UTC and last

for 10 hours (22:00 UTC).  During this time, the incoming AQUA data will

be stored on NASA servers.  Then, after 22:00 UTC, the data will be made

available to the AQUA processing systems from the NASA servers and the

backlog of AQUA data will be processed and distributed.  Therefore, the

data will not be lost.

The outage will occur as part of a Critical Infrastructure Plan (CIP)

failover test.  Other "essential data" will continue to be processed and

made available, but the AQUA data are not currently categorized as

"essential".

The understanding is that there is a plan to have the AQUA data

processing included in the "essential" category for CIP at some point in

the future.