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Message forwarded from Dr. Charles H. Jackman, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.
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July 23, 2001

UARS Colleagues:

We have some "Very Sad News" to report.

We were informed on Friday, July 20, 2001, that a final decision to
shut off UARS instrument operations on September 30, 2001, has 
been made at NASA Headquarters.  Given the positive response that we
received at our May meeting with Jack Kaye, Ghassem Assarar, and
Mike Luther, we thought that UARS measurements would continue for at 
least part of FY02.  We were encouraged to develop a minimum cost plan
for operations through December 31, 2002, and this had been our principle
activity up until Friday.

We were totally surprized and extremely disappointed by this decision
and we don't know if anything can be done to reverse this decision.  

No final decision has yet been made concerning the disposition of the
UARS and it is still possible that a retrieval will occur.  Also, there
has yet been no final decision concerning the final archiving of the
UARS data.

It is possible that this message is not reaching everyone with interests
in the UARS.  Please send it on to anyone who you think might need to
be informed about this decision.

This is all the information that we and Mike Kurylo (UARS Program Scientist)
have at this time.  We will inform you if we hear any other information.

Sincerely,

Charles Jackman             and         Anne Douglass
UARS Project Scientist                  UARS Deputy Project Scientist

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Delay in the TOMS data reporting because of a software problem at NASA
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Leap year glitch - there was a problem in the NASA software in the ground control 
center such that the leap year was not being handled correctly. 
Data for December 31st was being assigned to January 1st. Leap years in the past 
were handled correctly by this software, so it not clear why it failed this time 
and it is taking longer to track down the problem than expected. 

Earth Probe is fine and Nasa has not lost any data. Nasa hope to have everything 
back on line tomorrow (the 4th). 

BADC Support
03-Jan-2001

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Haloe Level 3A version 19 data now publically available from the BADC
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The BADC has recently acquired the HALOE Level 3A version 19 data.
This dataset covers the time period from 11-OCT-1991 through 30-APR-2000. 
The HALOE level 3A data are vertical profiles of methane (CH4), hydrogen 
chloride (HCl), hydrogen fluoride (HF), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2),
water vapor (H2O), ozone (O3), temperature (TEMP), and aerosol extinction 
(AEXTCH4, AEXTHCL, AEXTHF and AEXTNO).

More information about this dataset is available at 
http://www.badc.rl.ac.uk/data/haloel3/

BADC Support 24/07/00.

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10th Dec. 1996: GIF images of ADEOS and Earth-Probe TOMS are now being produced automatically on arrival of the data at the BADC. The full set of northern and southern hemisphere images for these data are available in the adeos and earthprobe subdirectories below /badc/toms/images/south (and /north).See: http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/toms/ Read more