At Augsburg College the new MACCS iridium data is downloaded from SRI's ftp site at :00, :15, :30, :45 of every hour of every day when the maccs user crontab on the yspace server runs the script ftpsri.sh which is located in the /Volumes/physics_data/Code/MACCS_Code/ directory. The new data is saved in the /Volumes/physics_data/Ftp/MACCS_DATA/Raw/{site abbreviation}/{year}ir/ folders. For example, the 2007 Cape Dorest iridium data is saved in the /Volumes/physics_data/Ftp/MACCS_DATA/Raw/CD/2007ir/ directory. You can view Augsburg's MACCS data from the ftp site ftp://space.augsburg.edu/MACCS_DATA/. After downloading the data, the ftpsri.sh script creates two formats of ASCII files with the IridiumMaccs2.pro and IridiumMaccs3.pro idl programs and it creates line plots of the data with the linex7.pro idl program.
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