20020408: WAFS grids on NOAAPORT?

>From: "Batson, Bryan" <address@hidden>
>Organization: JSFC
>Keywords: 200204081850.g38Ioqa04524 NOAAPORT WAFS

Bryan and Brian,

>Curious. I wonder if the Unidata folks are seeing these grids in their
>feed. Their LDM stuff should have a record of them, I would think.

We have not seen any grib messages originating from KWBK.

  FROM RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT

  DRGAA628 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY THE FOLLOWING NCEP GLOBAL
  ENSEMBLE WAFS GRIDS WILL BE ADDED TO THE AWIPS/NOAAPORT
  DATASTREAM TO FACILITATE TESTING OF THE NEXT AWIPS SOFTWARE
  BUILD.

   ...

  HTXY25 KWBK -- 250 MB TMP
  HTXY50 KWBK -- 500 MB TMP
  HTXY85 KWBK -- 850 MB TMP
  HHXY25 KWBK -- 250 MB HGT
  HHXY50 KWBK -- 500 MB HGT

   ...

Hope that this helps.

Now, as far as anyone understanding XCD decoding of grib messages: I
have been digging into this for the past three weeks, and I have been
finding and fixing bugs as I went along.  I have committed all the
changes I have made in the SSEC CVS system, so they _may_ make the May
7.9 (or whatever they are going to rename it to) upgrade.

If, for some reason, my mods do not make the upgrade, I will be happy
to put together a compressed tar file with the mods for you (and
others) to grab.  Along those lines, I have put together a new gribdec.tar.Z
bundle that contains the mods that I have made.  You can grab this
from passworded FTP as follows:

machine: ftp.unidata.ucar.edu
user: umcidas
pass: XXXXXX
directory: unix/gribdec
file: gribdec.tar.Z

If you are familiar with Chad's original gribdec.tar.Z bundle, you should
be aware that I have made some changes:

o the default make action is to build the executables
o if you want to install the built code and data files, you have to 
  run 'make install'
o you can either edit Makefile and change the VENDOR= setting to match
  how you want these built (the compilers used, that is), or you can
  specify VENDOR=<vendor setting> on the make command line.  Examples:

  make VENDOR=-vendor                   <- default
  make VENDOR=-gcc                      <- for using gcc/f2c/mcfc
  make VENDOR=-g77                      <- Unidata McIDAS supports use of
                                             gcc/g77

You can use the built code in the directory you unpack it from.  To do
this, make sure to set your MCPATH to include that directory first.

Other parts of the mods include, but are not limited to:

o better processing of error returns of function calls in Mcgribdecoder.c
o updated default grib table A, gbtbpds001.av1
  updated UK Met grib table A, gbtbpds001.a74v1
  new NCAR grib table A, gbtbpds001.a60v1
  new Japan Met Agency grib table A, gbtbpds001.a34v1
o updated grib table B, gbtbpds001.bv1
o and more...

Later...

Tom


>BB
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hoeth, Brian 
>Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 8:31 AM
>To: Batson, Bryan
>Subject: FW: Unanswered inquiries?
>
>
>FYI ... looks like SSEC misses Chad.  Anyways, they finally got back to me
>about the Ensemble grids.  Read below ...
>
>BH
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: McIDAS Help Desk [mailto:address@hidden]
>Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:09 PM
>To: Hoeth, Brian
>Subject: Re: Unanswered inquiries?
>
>
>Hi Brian,
>I'm late getting back to you on this because I spent about 6 hours today
>finding out how little we know about the guts of -XCD (and how much we
>miss Chad's expertise).
>
>In the end, we determined that we're not currently receiving these
>ensemble WAFS grids over NOAAPORT. We checked both the McIDAS grids and
>the raw GRIB files that are being saved by an in-house user, but neither
>of them had the grids.
>
>If and when the grids are available on NOAAPORT, they should be filed
>because the -XCD grid decoder/filer files all grids unless you
>specifically discard them in NOGRIB.CFG. They will most likely end up in
>the miscellaneous grid files (which default to dataset RTGRIDS/MISC and
>grid files 5001-5010) with "x" for the SRC field (see GRDLIST output)
>because the model ID will most likely be something undefined in the
>gbtbpds001.a* files. (Grids with a model ID that map in gbtbpds001.a* to
>a SRC [model] name matching an entry at the bottom of RTMODELS.CFG end
>up in the grid files specified for that SRC/model name; all others go
>into the miscellaneous grid files.)
>
>So the bottom line is that we believe the grids aren't available yet on
>NOAAPORT. When they are added, they'll be placed into the RTGRIDS/MISC
>dataset with "x" (unknown) for the "SRC" field that's included in
>GRDLIST output. If someone can tell us what the model ID will be for
>these grids, then the gbtbpds001.a* file can be updated so the grids are
>labeled appropriately.
>
>I hope this info helps!
>Barry Roth
>McIDAS Help Desk
>address@hidden
>
>"Hoeth, Brian" wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I hate to be a pest, but I usually get good response time from the MUG and
>I
>> didn't get a response for either of the 2 inquiries I sent in on 03/21 or
>> 03/35?  So, I was wondering if maybe my inquiries didn't make it in for
>some
>> reason?  I've attached them.
>> 
>>  <<FW: 20020321: Ensembles on NOAAPORT(fwd)>>  <<HP-UX 11.i (11.11)
>> supported for McIDAS 7.9?>>
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Brian Hoeth
>> Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin
>> CSOC - Consolidated Space Operations Contract
>> Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
>> Office:  281-218-2240
>> Pager:  281-613-1020
>> 
>>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Subject: FW: 20020321: Ensembles on NOAAPORT(fwd)
>> Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:19:14 -0600
>> From: "Hoeth, Brian" <address@hidden>
>> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
>> CC: "Tom Yoksas (E-mail)" <address@hidden>, "Batson, Bryan"
>>      <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was wondering if McIDAS will be able to handle these products?  If so,
>how
>> would we go about configuring XCD to decode them?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Brian Hoeth
>> Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin
>> CSOC - Consolidated Space Operations Contract
>> Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
>> Office:  281-218-2240
>> Pager:  281-613-1020
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Linda Miller [mailto:address@hidden]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:53 PM
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: 20020321: Ensembles on NOAAPORT(fwd)
>> 
>> 385 NOXX10 KWBC 211914 DATA MGT MESSAGE 03-02.18 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY
>> 
>> TO AWIPS/NOAAPORT USERS...FAMILY OF SERVICES/FOS/SUBSCRIBERS...
>> EMERGENCY MANAGERS WEATHER INFORMATION NETWORK/EMWIN/
>> NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE/NWS/CUSTOMERS...WAFS USERS...GTS USERS..
>> NWS FAX CHART USERS.
>> 
>> FROM RTH WASHINGTON DATA MANAGEMENT
>> 
>> DRGAA628 EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY THE FOLLOWING NCEP GLOBAL
>> ENSEMBLE WAFS GRIDS WILL BE ADDED TO THE AWIPS/NOAAPORT
>> DATASTREAM TO FACILITATE TESTING OF THE NEXT AWIPS SOFTWARE
>> BUILD.
>> 
>> ZOLTAN TOTH /301/763-8000 EXTENSION 7268 IS THE COGNIZANT
>> TECHNICAL INDIVIDUAL. ANTHONY ROBINSON /301/713-1373 EXTENSION
>> 165 IS THE DRG FOCAL POINT FOR THIS ITEM.
>> 
>> HTXY25 KWBK -- 250 MB TMP
>> HTXY50 KWBK -- 500 MB TMP
>> HTXY85 KWBK -- 850 MB TMP
>> HHXY25 KWBK -- 250 MB HGT
>> HHXY50 KWBK -- 500 MB HGT
>> HHXY70 KWBK -- 700 MB HGT
>> HHXY85 KWBK -- 850 MB HGT
>> HHXY99 KWBK -- 1000 MB HGT
>> HRXY70 KWBK -- 700 MB RH
>> HUXY25 KWBK -- 250 MB U WND
>> HUXY50 KWBK -- 500 MB U WND
>> HUXY85 KWBK -- 850 MB U WND
>> HVXY25 KWBK -- 250 MB V WND
>> HVXY50 KWBK -- 500 MB V WND
>> HVXY85 KWBK -- 850 MB V WND
>> HEXY98 KWBK -- TOTAL PRECIP 12 HR ACCUM
>> HPXY89 KWBK -- MSLP
>> HUXY98 KWBK -- 10 M U WND
>> HVXY98 KWBK -- 10 M V WND
>> HTXY98 KWBK -- 2 M TMP
>> HTXY98 KWBK -- 2 M MAX TMP
>> HTXY98 KWBK -- 2 M MIN TMP
>> 
>> WHERE X IS A PLACE HOLDER FOR THE GRID ID AND WILL BE
>> EITHER K /GRID39/ OR L /GRID 40/ AND Y IS THE TIME INDICTAOR
>> GIVEN BY/
>> 
>> A   00 HOUR ANALYSIS
>> B   06 HOUR FCST
>> C  12 HOUR FCST
>> D  18 HOUR FCST
>> E  24 HOUR FCST
>> F  30 HOUR FCST
>> G  36 HOUR FCST
>> H  42 HOUR FCST
>> I   48 HOUR FCST
>> J   60 HOUR FCST
>> K   72 HOUR FCST
>> L   84 HOUR FCST
>> Z   SEE GRIB PDS /USED FOR 54  66  AND 78 HOUR FORECASTS/
>> 
>> EACH GRIB MESSAGE IS ABOUT 5.8KB IN SIZE. WE HAVE 22 PRODUCTS
>> LISTED 11 MEMBERS/15 FORECAST HOURS/2 GRIDS   3630 GRIB MESSAGES
>> PER CYCLE. THIS CORRESPONDS TO APPROXIMATELY 21MB OF DATA PER
>> CYCLE OR APPROXIMATELY 42MB PER DAY.
>> THESE PRODUCTS WILL BE READY FOR TRANSMISSION AT THE VERY END
>> OF THE 00 AND 12 UTC NCEP MODEL CYCLES. APPROXIMATE DELIVERY
>> TIMES WILL BE 10 UTC /FOR 00 UTC/ AND 19 UTC /FOR /12 UTC/.
>> 
>> A DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED PRODUCTS CAN BE
>> FOUND ON THE DATA MANAGEMENT WEB PAGE UNDER CHANGE NOTICES.
>> 
>> FOR FOS/NOAAPORT AND NON-AWIPS CUSTOMERS- IF YOU HAVE ANY
>> QUESTIONS REGARDING ROUTING OR WOULD LIKE TO ADD THESE
>> PRODUCTS TO YOUR DATASTREAM PLEASE CONTACT DATA MANAGEMENT.
>> 
>> EMAIL NWS.DM/AT SYMBOL/NOAA.GOV
>> 
>> THIS INFORMATION IS ALSO POSTED ON THE NWS DATA MANAGEMENT
>> WEB PAGE UNDER CHANGE NOTICES. THE URL IS LISTED BELOW.
>> 
>> NOTE THE URL SHOULD BE TYPED IN ALL LOWER CASE.
>> 
>> HTTP TO WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/DATAMGMT/INDEX.HTML
>> 
>> DATA MANAGEMENT
>> TELECOMMUNICATION OPERATIONS CENTER
>> RTH WASHINGTON SENDS
>> 
>> ---------- End Forwarded Message ----------
>> 
>>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Subject: HP-UX 11.i (11.11) supported for McIDAS 7.9?
>> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:23:41 -0600
>> From: "Hoeth, Brian" <address@hidden>
>> To: "'address@hidden'" <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was just wondering if HP-UX 11.i will be supported for McIDAS 7.9?
>> Looking at Inquiry 11611, I see that SSEC has taken some of my findings
>and
>> applied them to the mcidas installation scripts, but it's hard for me to
>> tell whether SSEC plans to support HP-UX 11.i for McIDAS-X 7.9 since the
>> information under Next Upgrade on the McIDAS-X Software page
>> (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mug/x/XTOP.html) for "Planned System
>> Configurations for Next McIDAS-X Upgrade" hasn't been updated since 24 May
>> 2001.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Brian Hoeth
>> Software Engineer, Lockheed Martin
>> CSOC - Consolidated Space Operations Contract
>> Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
>> Office:  281-218-2240
>> Pager:  281-613-1020
>