Processing Times

Here are plots of MODIS processing times for the "bent pipe" winds. The times are for (1) the acquisition (FTP) of level-1b data, which is difference between the image time and the time that the image is transferred for wind processing, and (2) the total wind processing time for the middle image of a triplet, which is the total wind processing time for the last image of a triplet plus 100 minutes. The plots are updated periodically, but infrequently.

Terra:

Aqua:

Here are some old MODIS acquisition figures, plotted a bit differently.