Thread: Earth-unit Conversion Issue with LDO/BDO Channel Data in timeseries product?

Started: 2014-12-01 16:58:13
Last activity: 2014-12-06 05:31:39
Topics: Web Services
Hello Support,

Thank you for providing such a great suite of web service products, they
have been extremely useful for my research which examines the atmospheric
pressure data collected by the US Transportable Array (TA). For my work,
the timeseries product has been immensely helpful, however I've run into a
bit of a snag over the last week when attempting to query data from the
LDO/BDO channels for the TA and N4 networks (pressure data from the Setra
278 sensors). I'm able to query and see the "integer count" data just fine
as shown in the plotting tool example below...

http://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/1/query?net=TA&sta=N63A&loc=EP&cha=LDO&start=2014.330T12:00:00&end=2014.331T12:00:00&output=plot

However, when I attempt to apply the instrument correction argument
(correct=true) to get the data into earth units, which is the actual
pressure reading, I receive an internal server error.

http://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/1/query?net=TA&sta=N63A&loc=EP&cha=LDO&start=2014.330T12:00:00&end=2014.331T12:00:00&output=plot&correct=true

It appears that perhaps the internal conversion function is not
understanding the conversion string information properly, but that is just
a cursory look from my end based on the information provided to me from the
error display. Would it be possible for someone to take a look at this? I
do use other channels that contain atmospheric data as well (LDM/BDM for
example) and those appear to be working properly, I'm unclear on if this
issue is occurring with any other channels or networks.

Thanks for taking a look into this.

Alexander Jacques
Ph.D. Candidate - Atmospheric Sciences
Programming Support - MesoWest
University of Utah
INSCC Rm. 484
(801) 581-4362
Alexander.Jacques<at>utah.edu

  • Hi Alex,

    We have identified the underlying issues related to this problem and have recently released new versions of the impacted software. You should find that the query you included now works properly.

    Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention and for your continued support of the IRIS DMC web services.

    Cheers,
    Robert

    _______________________________
    Robert Weekly
    Quality and Deployment System Engineer
    [e] rtweekly<at>iris.washington.edu


    On Dec 1, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Alex Jacques <alexander.jacques<at>utah.edu> wrote:

    Hello Support,

    Thank you for providing such a great suite of web service products, they have been extremely useful for my research which examines the atmospheric pressure data collected by the US Transportable Array (TA). For my work, the timeseries product has been immensely helpful, however I've run into a bit of a snag over the last week when attempting to query data from the LDO/BDO channels for the TA and N4 networks (pressure data from the Setra 278 sensors). I'm able to query and see the "integer count" data just fine as shown in the plotting tool example below...

    http://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/1/query?net=TA&sta=N63A&loc=EP&cha=LDO&start=2014.330T12:00:00&end=2014.331T12:00:00&output=plot

    However, when I attempt to apply the instrument correction argument (correct=true) to get the data into earth units, which is the actual pressure reading, I receive an internal server error.

    http://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/1/query?net=TA&sta=N63A&loc=EP&cha=LDO&start=2014.330T12:00:00&end=2014.331T12:00:00&output=plot&correct=true

    It appears that perhaps the internal conversion function is not understanding the conversion string information properly, but that is just a cursory look from my end based on the information provided to me from the error display. Would it be possible for someone to take a look at this? I do use other channels that contain atmospheric data as well (LDM/BDM for example) and those appear to be working properly, I'm unclear on if this issue is occurring with any other channels or networks.

    Thanks for taking a look into this.

    Alexander Jacques
    Ph.D. Candidate - Atmospheric Sciences
    Programming Support - MesoWest
    University of Utah
    INSCC Rm. 484
    (801) 581-4362
    Alexander.Jacques<at>utah.edu
    _______________________________________________
    webservices mailing list
    webservices<at>iris.washington.edu
    http://www.iris.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/webservices







    • Hello Robert,

      Thanks much, all appears to be working well from my end now. I'll let you
      know if I see any additional issues.

      -Alex

      Alexander Jacques
      Ph.D. Candidate - Atmospheric Sciences
      Programming Support - MesoWest
      University of Utah
      INSCC Rm. 484
      (801) 581-4362
      Alexander.Jacques<at>utah.edu

      On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Robert Weekly <rtweekly<at>iris.washington.edu>
      wrote:

      Hi Alex,

      We have identified the underlying issues related to this problem and have
      recently released new versions of the impacted software. You should find
      that the query you included now works properly.

      Thank you for bringing this issue to our attention and for your continued
      support of the IRIS DMC web services.

      Cheers,
      Robert

      _______________________________
      Robert Weekly
      Quality and Deployment System Engineer
      [e] rtweekly<at>iris.washington.edu


      On Dec 1, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Alex Jacques <alexander.jacques<at>utah.edu>
      wrote:

      Hello Support,

      Thank you for providing such a great suite of web service products, they
      have been extremely useful for my research which examines the atmospheric
      pressure data collected by the US Transportable Array (TA). For my work,
      the timeseries product has been immensely helpful, however I've run into a
      bit of a snag over the last week when attempting to query data from the
      LDO/BDO channels for the TA and N4 networks (pressure data from the Setra
      278 sensors). I'm able to query and see the "integer count" data just fine
      as shown in the plotting tool example below...


      http://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/1/query?net=TA&sta=N63A&loc=EP&cha=LDO&start=2014.330T12:00:00&end=2014.331T12:00:00&output=plot

      However, when I attempt to apply the instrument correction argument
      (correct=true) to get the data into earth units, which is the actual
      pressure reading, I receive an internal server error.


      http://service.iris.edu/irisws/timeseries/1/query?net=TA&sta=N63A&loc=EP&cha=LDO&start=2014.330T12:00:00&end=2014.331T12:00:00&output=plot&correct=true

      It appears that perhaps the internal conversion function is not
      understanding the conversion string information properly, but that is just
      a cursory look from my end based on the information provided to me from the
      error display. Would it be possible for someone to take a look at this? I
      do use other channels that contain atmospheric data as well (LDM/BDM for
      example) and those appear to be working properly, I'm unclear on if this
      issue is occurring with any other channels or networks.

      Thanks for taking a look into this.

      Alexander Jacques
      Ph.D. Candidate - Atmospheric Sciences
      Programming Support - MesoWest
      University of Utah
      INSCC Rm. 484
      (801) 581-4362
      Alexander.Jacques<at>utah.edu
      _______________________________________________
      webservices mailing list
      webservices<at>iris.washington.edu
      http://www.iris.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/webservices







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