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Christian, The 850 mb data will have a pattern such as: prod/gefs.*TMPK/850 Pa PRES (the Pa is because the vertical coordinate of the grid data is actually Pascals though the 850 is scaled be 10-2 for printing equvalent mb) You can see the names of each field in the status file, such as: data/nccf/com/gens/prod/gefs.20061002/18/pgrb2a/gec00.t18z.pgrb2aanl ! grib2/ncep/SPEC62MRF/#000/200610021800F000/TMPK/850 Pa PRES! 000009 Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:37 +0200, Christian Pagé wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks again for being so quick to help us! > Since our bandwidth is a little bit limited, is it possible, by > example, to just ask for TMPK at 850 mb for ensemble data? > > Let's say that I have this pqact.conf action: > CONDUIT > prod/gefs\.(........)/(..)/pgrb2a/(ge.*)\.t..z\.pgrb2af(.*) > !grib2/ncep/(.*)/\ > (.*)/(.*)/TMPK/850 mb! > > Can I put this in the ldmd.conf to ask only for this field?? > request CONDUIT "status|ST.opnl/MT.nam|(prod/gefs.* > !grib2/ncep/.*/.*/.*/TMPK/850 mb!)" > > Regards, > > Christian > UQAM > > 2006/9/29, Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>: > > Christian, > > > > For the CONDUIT files on the idd, the NAM files will match with > > "MT.nam", and the new ensemble files will match with "prod/gefs". The > > other parts of your request line shown below will have no effect since > > there are no longer MT.eta headers in the data > > stream, and the bmoav and cy23r strings don't match any CONDUIT > > products. > > > > A single request line for nam and ensembles (which will receive the > > status files) can look like: > > > > request CONDUIT "ST.opnl/MT.nam|prod/gefs" > > > > If you want all the status files for the other products too, but just > > the NAM and Ensemble grids, then > > > > request CONDUIT "status|ST.opnl/MT.nam|prod/gefs" > > > > > > Steve Chiswell > > Unidata User Support > > > > > > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 22:10 +0200, Christian Pagé wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > WIth the new name change for GFS ensemble data in the CONDUIT feed: > > > how this affects the regex used in ldmd.conf feed configuration? > > > > > > I currently have: > > > request CONDUIT "(status)|(ST.opnl/MT.(eta|nam|bmoav|cy23r|ensg))" > > > > > > How must I change this request to take into account of the name changes? > > > I am not sure how I should update this request line. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > -- > > Steve Chiswell <address@hidden> > > Unidata > > -- Steve Chiswell <address@hidden> Unidata