Monitoring the Processing and Delivery of Cloud and Aerosol Products for the Atmosphere SIPS

The Atmosphere SIPS (Science Investigator-led Processing Systems) team at the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC), which is funded through a NASA contract, creates Level 2 cloud and aerosol products from the VIIRS instrument aboard the S-NPP and JPSS-1 satellites. In order to monitor the ingest, processing, and delivery of files to LAADS and eventually LANCE, we have developed an extensive monitoring system to observe every step in the process. Our main tool, the status grid, is used for real time monitoring and shows the current state of the system. We use it to track whether or not we are creating the files we need and that the processing time is meeting latency requirements. In the past year, we have added the ability to also track delivery of our aerosol and cloud products and have made the system more robust to handle the addition of new products down the road. Other additions to the monitoring system include statistical graphs for tracking the delivery latency of files.