Sounder SOI

The Sounder SOI event is generated any time the GVAR sounder decoder detects the start of a new sounder image and is creating a new McIDAS AREA file. The body of the e-mail for this event is in the following format:

SOI bline nline bele nele jday time ss bscan escan area

Where:

SOI	indicates this is a sounder start of image
bline	is the beginning detector scan line in sounder image (see Note below)
nline	is the number of detector scan lines in sounder image (see Note below)
bele	is the beginning element of sounder image
nele	is the number of elements in sounder image
jday	is the nominal julian day (yyddd) of sounder image
time	is the nominal time (hhmmss) of sounder image
ss	is the McIDAS sensor source number of satellite
bscan	is the beginning scan number of sounder image
escan	is the ending scan number of sounder image
area	is the McIDAS AREA number of decoded sounder image

Note: There are four detector scan lines in each GVAR sounder scan line.

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