<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-9415c0bf-7fff-5cb8-8831-93bb536aaecb"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Colleague,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">After 15 years of service to the earth and space weather operational and research, and search & rescue communities, the Metop-A Low Earth Orbit spacecraft is planned to be deorbited in November 2021 (</span><a href="https://www.eumetsat.int/plans-metop-end-life" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.eumetsat.int/plans-metop-end-life</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">). Standard Metop-A Space Environment Monitor 2 (SEM-2) products from NCEI will end on Monday November 15, 2021 corresponding to EUMETSAT’s end of mission plans. Two SEM-2 related science tests are anticipated and we will work to make those data public in the spring of 2022 pending their viability. For 2021 Metop-A SEM-2 instrument suite products, see here:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/poes/data/processed/ngdc/uncorrected/full/2021/metop02/">https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/poes/data/processed/ngdc/uncorrected/full/2021/metop02/</a></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additionally, we will be transitioning "<a href="http://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov">satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov</a>" HTTPS URLs from the NGDC to the NCEI domain and have plans to phase out FTP entirely in favor of only supporting HTTPS, potentially by the end of this calendar year. This change will affect URLs such as these that we have today:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/poes/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/poes/</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/goes/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/sem/goes/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/</span></a><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With respect to HTTPS and data currently organized underneath "<a href="http://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/">satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/</a>" (e.g. GOES, POES, DMSP space weather), our understanding today is that likely only the current root URL “<a href="http://satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/">satdat.ngdc.noaa.gov/</a>” will be replaced by a new root URL + new top-level directory paths, leaving the underlying data structure for each sensor consistent with what we have today. We will share an update on this topic when available later this calendar year.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Kim Baugh (Data Manager, primary POC)</span></p></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>
Kimberly Baugh</div><div>Senior Associate Scientist<br>
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)<br><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information</span></p>
<a href="mailto:Kim.Baugh@noaa.gov" target="_blank">Kim.Baugh@noaa.gov</a><br>
<a value="+13034974452">303-497-4452 (office)</a></div><div>303-819-2627 (cell)</div><div>
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