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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 1)

nline

is the number of detector scan lines in sounder image (see Note 1)

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

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