Closed jpswinski closed 5 months ago
I appears that the files in question are missing the track subgroups (gt1l, gt1r, gt2l, gt2r, gt3l, gt3r).
SlideRule can do a sanity check on the integrity of the atl03 granule before moving ahead with reading it, so that a better error message can be provided to the user; but that will slow down the processing of each request.
I recommend that we document this, and leave as is.
It may be related to TEP stares... @tsutterley discovered that they correlate to when the spacecraft is doing a TEP stare
Jeff Lee said that if no data is provided for a beam, then the corresponding group will not be present. So for all-ocean granules, the weak beams will be missing and this is the error we see.
This can be closed as the TEP stare and the ocean granules explain this behavior.
During @slhowardESR's runs, some reads of granules fail with the error that the header signature in the file is incorrect.