David and Douglas --- thanks for your mail and explanation.

I can only assume that the NOAA 19 ATOVS on EPS-14 has been delayed ( I know
you and Douglas get it anyway for testing ) as I am receiving L2 ATOVS from
Metop on EPS-4. Not important I know as the data cannot yet be used, but
useful to keep up to date with new data availability in case of queries from
others.

Regards
Ian.

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From: "David J Taylor" <gm8arv@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:27 AM
To: <METOP@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [METOP] Metop L2 Sounding Products

> Ian Deans wrote:
>> I am curious to know what exactly are the Metop L2 Sounding Products
>> and what channel they are received.
>>
>> It appears that you need to be receiving this data to have your
>> account automatically activated for the NOAA 19 L2 ATOVS on EPS-14.
>> I am not concerned about NOAA 19 L2 ATOVS as it in bufr format and
>> therefore unusable, but as I say I am curious about the Metop data as
>> I haven't heard of that before.
>>
>> Regards
>> Ian.
>
> Ian,
>
> I am seeing three minute data chunks in [EPS-14] typical sizes 150-200KB
> (although a few larger and smaller). These are from NOAA-19. The
> equivalent Metop-A data is on [EPS-4], and looks to be in the same format
> with very similar file sizes.
>
> Cheers,
> David