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[GEMPAK #MSR-238764]: BUFR radiosonde profiles

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #MSR-238764]: BUFR radiosonde profiles
  • Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 17:08:01 -0600
Hi Larry, 

I have not heard of a GEMPAK decoder at National Centers for bufruair, I assume 
because they use the Python Data Access Framework to request the records from 
their AWIPS II EDEX server.

In the latest GEMPAK release (7.2.3) are table entries for AWIPS II bufruair:

A2UAIR       AWIPSDB                   uair.xml                                 
        CAT_SND  SCAT_SND    4   2880     -1      OFF/0/0      4

and in $NAWIPS/Gemenviron you have the $EDEX_SERVER envvar which defaults to 
"edex-cloud.unidata.ucar.edu".  The file $GEMTBL/data-access/uair.xml contains 
the request-able parameters. 

With the python-awips package installed from

https://github.com/Unidata/python-awips/blob/master/README.rst

you can use SN programs and nmap2 with the alias A2UAIR (rather than UAIR).

I should probably get around to writing a GEMPAK C/FORTRAN decoder for this, or 
perhaps solicit someone in the community to do it using the existing BUFR dc 
programs as a reference. 

Hope this helps,

Michael



> I assume that the answer is you are not aware of any bufr decoders for 
> radiosonde data.
> I am asking again because I received an email from Science magazine wanting 
> to interview
> my on how the switch to bufr will affect people. He was prompted by an 
> upcoming BAMS
> article:
> 
> http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00169.1?af=R&;
> 
> So I need to find a way to update my web server to handle bufr raob.



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: MSR-238764
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Critical
Status: Open