Wednesday, July 11, 2012

1700-1900 UTC, 1-3 pm EDTPresented by Matthew Seybold

Location: WWB Conference Room 607Telephone: (877) 917-1654 Passcode: 5917706#WebEx: https://spsd.webex.com/spsd/j.php?ED=193782392&UID=1096123742&PW=NZTViN2Q4MjJm&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D

Joint NWS & NESDIS/OSPO/SPSDQuarterly Meeting & Telecon

EngineeringCindy Hampton

IT ServicesAndre Hammond

Contact information for User ServicesNESDIS / Office of Satellite and Product Operations /

Satellite Products and Services Division (SPSD)

AcronymsCDA – Command and Data AcquisitionMOD – Mission Operations DivisionSPSD – Satellite Products and Services Division

OperationsSteve Schaffer (a)

SupportMike Settles

Satellite ProductsRicky Irving

SystemsAlva Barnette

OperationsAl McMath

Systems Engineering

Bob Clark

Admin OfficerLinda Brown

Special Projects Selina Nauman

DirectorKathy Kelly

Deputy DirectorMark Moran (a)

CorporateServices

Keith Amburgey

Fairbanks CDALarry Ledlow

Wallops CDADoug Crawford

MODRon Mahmot

NOAA Ice CenterSharolyn Young

SPSDDave Benner

Satellite Analysis Davida Streett

Direct ServicesChris O’Connors

SupportStephen Howard

Deputy: Linda Stathoplos Deputy: Tom Renkevens

Natalia DonohoWork: (301)763-8051 x134

Cell: (202) 604-0734Natalia.Donoho@noaa.gov

Matthew SeyboldWork: (301)763-8051 x106

Cell: (443) 985-9172Matthew.Seybold@noaa.gov

SPSD User Services

Goals

• Share status and updates• Improve communication• Provide an open forum for satellite customers

to provide feedback to user services• Questions are encouraged!

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Agenda

• Contact Info• Goals• Existing Action Items• GOES Status

– Meteosat-10– Himawari-8/9– Future GEO

• POES Status– NPP / JPSS– METOP-B– GCOM-W1

• NWS Update on AWIPS II– Deployment / Implementation– Change Request Process

• ESPC Products Update– Banghua Yan, Ocean Color PAL

• SPSD User Services Update• Relocation to NCWCP• Upcoming face-to-face

opportunities • Discussion

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Existing Actions Items

Action Items from Prior meeting – April 17, 2012 are listed below

• Action! User Services – NPP Questions: Provide timelines for data flow to AWIPS, operational status (within ESPC) of each NPP instrument, level of support for monitoring and notifications and associated timelines.

• Action! User Services: When will products be available from GCOM-W1 (JAXA)?

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Payload Instrument

GOES-12(S. America)Launch: Jul 01Activation: Apr

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GOES-13(East)

Launch: May 06Activation: Apr

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GOES-14(Storage)

Launch: Jun 09Activation:

GOES-15(West )

Launch: Mar 10Activation: Dec

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Imager Y(1) G G GSounder Y (2) G G Y (11)Energetic Particle Sensor (EPS) Y (3) G G G

Magnetometers G G G GHigh Energy Proton and Alpha Detector (HEPAD) G G G G

X-Ray Sensor (XRS) Y (4) R (8) G GSolar X-Ray Imager (SXI) R (5) Y (9) G S/C (12)Spacecraft SubsystemsTelemetry, Command & Control G G G G

Attitude and Orbit Control S/C (14) G G GInclination Control R (6) G G GPropulsion Y (7) S/C (10) G GMechanisms G G G GElectrical Power G G G GThermal Control G G G GCommunications Payloads G G G S/C (13)

GOES Status (June 29, 2012)http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus

KeyOperational

Spacecraft issues but no user impacts

Operational with limitations

Non-operational

G

R

S/C

Y

KeyOperational

Spacecraft issues but no user impacts

Operational with limitations

Non-operational

G

R

S/C

Y

Payload Instrument

GOES-12(S. America)Launch: Jul 01Activation: Apr

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GOES-13(East)

Launch: May 06Activation: Apr

10

GOES-14(Storage)

Launch: Jun 09Activation:

GOES-15(West )

Launch: Mar 10Activation: Dec

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Imager Y(1) G G GSounder Y (2) G G Y (11)Energetic Particle Sensor (EPS) Y (3) G G G

Magnetometers G G G GHigh Energy Proton and Alpha Detector (HEPAD) G G G G

X-Ray Sensor (XRS) Y (4) R (8) G GSolar X-Ray Imager (SXI) R (5) Y (9) G S/C (12)Spacecraft SubsystemsTelemetry, Command & Control G G G G

Attitude and Orbit Control S/C (14) G G GInclination Control R (6) G G GPropulsion Y (7) S/C (10) G GMechanisms G G G GElectrical Power G G G GThermal Control G G G GCommunications Payloads G G G S/C (13)

GOES-12 Imager Cycle Slip Occurs periodically. 2 to 3 images are corrupted or lost for each cycle slip. OSPO Developed a pseudo-telemetry to detect the anomaly for quick correction response.

GOES-12 X-ray Imager has failed. No recovery possible.

GOES-12 Inclination Control is non-operational. No fuel remains for inclination control maneuvers. Code was loaded to mitigate image motion at slightly inclined orbit. XGOHI (eXtended GOES High Inclination.) Users should expect a 4 minute delay from the time actually imaged. As with the past GOES-10, users should also expect if there is a frame break during an image that the rest of the image will be lost. Without XGOHI, the growing satellite inclination would continue to cause loops with an ever increasing "wobble".

GOES-13 X-Ray Sensor Failed. No x-ray space measurements being collected.

GOES-15 Sounder temperature control blanket is raised. Yaw flip at Equinox to keep Sun angle below cooler plane. Data outage and degraded products during each yaw flip maneuver and 28 hours of INR recovery period.

GOES Status (June 29, 2012)http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goesstatus

GOES-13 Imager Incident Report is still open for the one-pixel offset in the Imager IR data. ITT Excelis meeting is postponed until later this month. STAR estimates differ from the reported one-pixel. Stay tuned.

GOES-13 Sounder filter wheel winding motors are both operating. This is slightly sub-optimal from an engineering perspective, but past satellites have operated for extended periods in this configuration, and there is no impact to user’s data.

GOES-15 Line Shifts

• GOES-15 line shifts– Generally a westward shift– The shifts are caused by

the sync loss of the system, which leads to the loss of the data during a scan

– Potential Causes• Perhaps BER (Bit

Error Rate)• Confirmed for a short

period - GOES-R Construction – Gas generator was shut off and relocated

– Will pursue having an incident report opened

GOES-15 Line Shifts

• GOES-15 line shifts– Generally a westward shift– The shifts are caused by

the sync loss of the system, which leads to the loss of the data during a scan

– Potential Causes• Perhaps BER (Bit

Error Rate)• Confirmed for a short

period - GOES-R Construction – Gas generator was shut off and relocated

– Will pursue having an incident report opened

GOES-14 Normal ModeActivities under Consideration

• GOES-14 is scheduled for normal mode activities during an annual N/S maneuver in August, 2012

• Various Engineering check-outs and exercises• Considering

– Verify new optimized GOES-East Imager and Sounder schedules (not yet available)

– SRSO (1-min) Imager data collection for GOES-R Science Test Planning (2 weeks in Late August)

• The 'generic' SRSO location would be Norman, OK– Collect Imager stray light correction data (Mid-Aug. –

End of Oct.)– Provide SXI and XRS data for SWPC during GOES-

15 eclipses

GOES Flyout Schedule

11 http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/FlyoutSchedules.html http://www.goes-r.gov

Future GEO PlansMETEOSAT-10 (MSG-3)

• Launched July 5, 2012• From French Guiana• Operational Transition Plans in progress at

EUMETSATMeteosat-10 and Meteosat-9 will split the

primary duties at 0° and 5° East (backup status)

Meteosat-8 will go to Indian OceanMeteosat-7 will go ?

Future GEO PlansHimawari-8/9 (sunflower)

• There is no L-band on these satellites. There is dialogue with JMA and COPC partners on if/how to get data back to the U.S.

• JMA plans to launch Himawari-8 in 2014 and begin its operation in 2015

• The launch of Himawari-9 for in-orbit standby is also scheduled in 2016 • Himawari-8/9 will be in operation around 140 degrees East covering the

East Asia and the Western Pacific

Question RE Himawari-8

• Unanswered question from Mike Johnson, NWS• What is the timeline on data availability and

current thoughts on distribution of data (particularly for use in NWS Pac Region and JTWC) ?

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Future GEO Plans

• At this point, NESDIS is not pursuing COMS (Korea) or Elektro-L (Russia) GEO data

POES Status (July 2, 2012) http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/index.asp

Operational G

Spacecraft Issue but no User Impact S/C

Operational with Limitation Y

Non-Operational R

Not Applicable N/A

Spacecraft Subsystems METOP-A NOAA-19 NOAA-18 NOAA-17 NOAA-16 NOAA-15Launch Date Oct 2006 Feb 2009 May 2005 Jun 2002 Sep 2000 May 1998

Operational Date May 2007 Jun 2009 Aug 2005 Oct 2002 Mar 2001 Dec 1998

Mission Data Category Primary (AM) Primary (PM) Secondary (PM) Secondary (AM) Secondary (PM) Secondary (AM)

Payload Instruments

AVHRR G G G R (11) Y(13) Y(20)

HIRS G G Y (3) G Y(14) R (6)

AMSU-A1 Y(26) G G R (4) Y(15) Y(21)

AMSU-A2 G G G G G

AMSU-B N/A N/A N/A Y (9) G R (12)

MHS G Y (8) G N/A N/A N/A

SEM G G G G G G

SBUV N/A S/C (9) G G Y(16) N/A

Spacecraft Subsystems

Telemetry, Command & Control G G G G G G

ADACS G G Y (7) G Y(17) Y(10)

EPS G G G Y(25) G GThermal Control G G G G G Y(22)

Communications Y (1) G G S/C (5) G Y(23)

APT/LRPT R (2) G G G R(18) G

SAR G G G G Y(19) Y(24)

Spacecraft Subsystems METOP-A NOAA-19 NOAA-18 NOAA-17 NOAA-16 NOAA-15Launch Date Oct 2006 Feb 2009 May 2005 Jun 2002 Sep 2000 May 1998

Operational Date May 2007 Jun 2009 Aug 2005 Oct 2002 Mar 2001 Dec 1998

Mission Data Category Primary (AM) Primary (PM) Secondary (PM) Secondary (AM) Secondary (PM) Secondary (AM)

Payload Instruments

AVHRR G G G R (11) Y(13) Y(20)

HIRS G G Y (3) G Y(14) R (6)

AMSU-A1 Y(26) G G R (4) Y(15) Y(21)

AMSU-A2 G G G G G

AMSU-B N/A N/A N/A Y (9) G R (12)

MHS G Y (8) G N/A N/A N/A

SEM G G G G G G

SBUV N/A S/C (9) G G Y(16) N/A

Spacecraft Subsystems

Telemetry, Command & Control G G G G G G

ADACS G G Y (7) G Y(17) Y(10)

EPS G G G Y(25) G GThermal Control G G G G G Y(22)

Communications Y (1) G G S/C (5) G Y(23)

APT/LRPT R (2) G G G R(18) G

SAR G G G G Y(19) Y(24)Transmitter off, no LRPT

AVHRR Scan Motor Failed

AMSU –A1 Scan Motor FailedN15 still available to users

HIRS Longwave channel noise

APT 1 & 2 Failed, N19 still available to users

HIRS Filter Wheel Stalled, N17 & METOP-A still available to users

AMSU-B Antenna Scan Motor Failed, METOP-A MHS still availalble to users

POES Status (July 2, 2012) http://www.oso.noaa.gov/poesstatus/index.asp

Operational G

Spacecraft Issue but no User Impact S/C

Operational with Limitation Y

Non-Operational R

Not Applicable N/A

JPSS & NPP News

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NPP Launch Oct., 2011; Ops Apr., 2013However, NCEP is using CrIS / ATMS radiance data in ops models already.

Suomi NPPInstrument Status – June 26, 2012

• The SNPP Command & Data Processor (CDP) reset and placed the spacecraft and all sensors into Earth Point Safe Mode on June 21 at 17:59:10Z.

• The Data Storage Unit (DSU) was dumped and provided to spacecraft vendor for investigation of root cause. Satellite was restored to Mission Point (operating) Mode and sensors were brought to operating status on June 22.

• The resulting science data gaps are as follows: VIIRS--20 hrs 44 mins; OMPS-21 hrs 43 mins; ATMS-18 hrs 56 mins; CERES-19 hrs 00 mins; and CrIS-24 hrs 9 mins.

• Investigation of the anomaly has been turned over to the JPSS Flight Project which will provide updates through its normal reporting processes.

• All instruments now in nominal operations mode with full science data production (VIIRS, CrIS, ATMS, OMPS, CERES)

Suomi NPP - Mission Status

• The number of NPP Data Access requests from OSPO is growing• Testing with primary customers is well underway with the NDE group at NSOF

testing with NCEP, AFWA, NAVO, FNMOC, EUMETSAT, and others• NCEP will ingest ATMS to the GFS in June, 2012• The plan for data access requests and delivery to customers is still being

finalized between NESDIS/OSD and NESDIS/OSPO• OSD will provide 8 x 5 (and best effort) monitoring • Ongoing T2O meetings between OSD and OSPO

Resources:• Common Data Format Control (CDFC) book of NPP products being delivered to

NDE: http://jointmission.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/documents.html• FY11 Project Acquisition Plan:

http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/NDE/ pub-docs/NDE_FY2011_Project_Acquisition_Plan.pdf

• Project Summary: http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/NDE/pub-docs/NDE_Concept_of_Operations-v4.pdf

Question RE NPP

• Unanswered question from Mike Johnson, NWS• Where do NPP and NASA/Aqua lie for crossing

times and drift (position in current polar configuration) ?

• OSPO Engineers reported the following:– 13:30+/- 00:10 Mean Local Time box– Our orbit altitude is 824 km.– Current Mean Local Time as of 20120710:

13:23– U/S can obtain Aqua specs from NASA

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Other Future POES News

METOP-B• Launch pushed from May

2012 to September 2012• 50 minutes behind

METOP-A (morning)• More…

– ASCAT – Winds– IASI, AMSU-A, HIRS/4 –

Soundings– AVHRR – Fires– GOME-2 – Ozone– MHS – Cyclones– Searth & Rescue– SEM – Space Obs

GCOM-W1 (JAXA)• Launched May 18, 2012• Began obs. July 3, 2012 • Joins afternoon “A-Train”• AMSR2• Focus is water

observations• It is a successor to Aqua

and is part of the GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)

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GCOM-W1 – “Shizuku”(water droplet)

• One of the first images distributed is this one-full-day image by AMSR2 on SHIZUKU from 9:00 a.m. on July 3 (JST) to July 4.

• http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2012/07/20120704_shizuku_e.html

• Whitish-yellow color parts indicate areas with heavy rain or sea ice, light blue color areas are with little water vapor in the atmosphere or thin clouds, the dark blue color sections are areas with more water vapor in the atmosphere or thicker clouds, and the black color parts are areas that were not observed.

Question RE GCOM-W1

• Unanswered question from Mike Johnson, NWS• GCOM-W1. What is the schedule for

operational availability of products through JPSS IDPS? Is there any way that AMSR-2 imagery can be made available to NWS (inside IDPS) or through any other means (JAXA web service) ASAP especially before next years hurricane / tropical storm season?

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AWIPS II Deployment/Implementation and

Change Request Process for AWIPS II

Bonnie Reed, Brian Motta, Mike Johnson

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Status of AWIPS-II Implementation as of 10 JuneNote: Blue – Installed but rolled back

WFO/RFC/Central Listing is on Slide 3.

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Status of AWIPS-II Implementation as of 10 June(continued)

Note, the AWIPS-II Implementation schedule is updated on a daily basis.

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WFO/RFC/Central Listing

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Process for Implementing NESDISoperational products into AWIPS II

1. Submit Satellite Products and Services Review Board Request (SPSRB) and concurrent Operations and Services Improvement Process (OSIP) Request

a) SPSRB funds O&M processing developmentb) OSIP validates requirement within NWS

2. Software Recommendation and Evaluation Committee (SREC) Processa) New/enhanced products are ranked by SREC voting members and

assigned to a Development Organization if AWIPS II software changes are required. 

b) If no AWIPS II software changes are necessary, resources are still needed for testing the products in AWIPS II. 

c) New data products (or an increase in volume) intended to flow on the SBN will need an RC and the usual bandwidth analysis prior to implementation.

Note: The full SREC Process can be found in the SREC Charter: https://sec.noaa3a.awips.noaa.gov/srec/files/srec_charter.pdf

• What is the status for testing of Blended Rate Rate products in AWIPS-I and AWIPS-II?

• These products reached operational status in OSPO in April, 2012

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Question RE Promotions to AWIPS

http://projects.osd.noaa.gov/spsrb https://requesttracker.osd.noaa.gov/admin_login.asp

Product Updates from SPSRB(Satellite Products & Services Review Board)

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12 New Requests since April Quarterly! … Charged Particle Densities, SSTs, OHC

New Operational MODIS/Aqua Ocean Color Products Using the NIR-SWIR Method from NOAA CW Okeanos Operational

Production System

• IPT Lead: Menghua Wang (STAR), Menghua.Weng@noaa.gov

• IPT Backup Lead: Banghua Yan (OSPO), Banghua.Yan@noaa.gov

Product Updates

• New operational ocean color products (NIR-SWIR Products): On July 6, 2012, MODIS ocean color products using the near-infrared (NIR) and shortwave infrared (SWIR) data processing are operational in NOAA

• NIR-SWIR products have improved quality over coastal areas compared with current ocean color products using NIR method

• The products also have a new product, diffuse attenuation coefficient at the wavelength of 490 nm (Kd490)

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Announcement of Operational NIR-SWIROcean Color Products

Product examples

Specifications of NIR-SWIROcean Color Products

• Satellite Sensor: MODIS/Aqua• Processing Environment

– Okeanos Operational Production System (OPS)• Product Specifications

– Products: chlorophyll-a concentration (daily mean and anomaly, bimonthly mean), water diffuse attenuation coefficient at 490 nm (daily mean), remote sensing reflectance at 667 nm (daily mean and anomaly, bimonthly mean)

– Coverage: all existing CW regions– Formats: HDF 4.1, GeoTiff and PNG– Spatial Resolution: 1 km– Timeliness: <12 hours

• Access Information:– NOAA COASTWATCH ftp server (ftp://ftpoceanwatch.noaa.gov/pub/modis/)– NOAA COASTWATCH web portal

(http://coastwatch.noaa.gov/cwn/search/interface.html)– ESPC DDS– NODC Class (http://www.class.ngdc.noaa.gov/saa/products/catSearch): in progress

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• Let’s coordinate on satellite links from weather.gov– Ideas from Tim Schmidt and Tom Renkevens…

• More options for weather.gov links to satellite imagery:• http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/Products/imagery/land.html

– Note the CONUS scale option: • http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/imagery/ceus.html

– Regional scales• http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/cp.html

– WFO scales• http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/wfo/ilx.html

– Maybe each WFO could link to a conus or regional scale and have a link to the WFO scale.

• Coordinate with Nancy Merckle, Natalia Donoho, Matthew Seybold

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News From The Web Teamhttp://www.ospo.noaa.gov

• The Goal is for improved management of– Product Monitoring Procedures– Trouble Tickets– Notifications– Tracking of Interactions with Users

• Data Load Status– Complete

• Satellites• Instruments• Applications• End Products• Servers

– In Progress• Organizations and Contacts• User / End Product Linkage

• Training for Help Desk, PALs, Assignees– Complete – Incident Tracking– Next – Search/Navigation & Notifications

• Web Portal (Future)– User Help Ticket Submission– User Contact Information and

Reaffirmation

Organizations&

Contacts

End ProductsIncidents

(Help Tickets)

NotificationsApplications

Servers

Instruments

Satellites

Reporting

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Database

NCWCP (NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction)

• Move Dates for OSPO / Satellite Products & Services Div.• SAB - August 13 & 23, 2012• SPB – August 22 & 23, 2012• Front Office (inc. User Services) – August 22 & 23, 2012

• Website for future tenants: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/ncwcp/

• Public access photo log: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/news/ncwcp/ 37

SPSD UserServices

Face-to-face opportunities

• EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference– September 3-7, 2012 in Sopot, Poland– http://www.eumetsat.int/Home/Main/News/Conferences_and_Events/810062?l=en

• NWA 37th Annual Meeting• October 6-11, 2012 in Madison, WI• http://www.nwas.org/meetings/nwa2012/

• SeaSpace International Remote Sensing Conference– October 21-24, 2012 in San Diego, CA– http://www.seaspace.com/?mid=conference

• NWS/Eastern Region Virtual Satellite Workshop• October 30, 2012 in Virtual Workshop•  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/ssd/erps/satellite/

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Face-to-face opportunities

• AGU Annual Meeting• December 3-7, 2012 in San Francisco, CA• http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2012/

• IUGG GRC Conference - “Extreme Natural Hazards and Their Impacts”• December 8-12, 2012 in Orange, CA• http://www1.chapman.edu/~rsingh/GeoRisk2012

• AMS Annual Meeting• January 6-10, 2012 in Austin, TX• http://annual.ametsoc.org/2013/index.cfm/call-for-papers/

• NOAA Satellite Conference !!! …see next slide

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• Due to opportunity for cost savings, the event has been moved from Miami FL to the Washington DC area

• Dates and venue are under consideration and TBD

• Web page shows up to date info

http://directreadout.noaa.gov/2013/index.htm

Next Quarterly Teleconference?

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• Tentatively - October 2, 2012

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