I've put a file on the SSEC ftp server: pub/incoming/GOES_Overshooting_Cloud_Top_Detection_Daily_2015182.nc
In this file, I display a parameter Visible Texture Rating. It's a big array so I recommend subsetting over the U.S. to conserve memory. I see that the data range appears as From: missing To: missing. I found this to be quite odd, so I did an ncdump of this parameter and found many non-missing values. Here's the ncdump of the parameter metadata:
ubyte ot_rating_visible(time, grid_lat, grid_lon) ; ot_rating_visible:long_name = "Visible Texture Detection Rating" ; ot_rating_visible:units = "unitless" ; ot_rating_visible:valid_range = 1UB, 255UB ; ot_rating_visible:coordinates = "time grid_lat grid_lon" ; ot_rating_visible:_FillValue = 0UB ;
I know that Mc-V has some issues with handling unsigned byte values greater than 128 but, when I dump out the data, I see lots of values between 0 and 128 which shouldn't be a problem. Any idea what's happening here?
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