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Re: 20010723: Re: pqact.conf: output METAR in individual station files? (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: 20010723: Re: pqact.conf: output METAR in individual station files? (fwd)
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:47:55 -0600 (MDT)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 02:07:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Christian Page <address@hidden>
To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
     decoders <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20010723: Re: pqact.conf: output METAR in individual station files?


Hi,

I fixed the problem when I upgraded to ldm-5.1.4. I was at ldm-5.1.2.
Thanks!


Christian Page
UQAM

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Robb Kambic wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Unidata Support wrote:
>
> >
> > ------- Forwarded Message
> >
> > >To: Peter Neilley <address@hidden>
> > >cc: <address@hidden>,
> > >cc: <address@hidden>
> > >From: Christian Page <address@hidden>
> > >Subject: Re: pqact.conf: output METAR in individual station files?
> > >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> > >Keywords: 200107231509.f6NF9j103159
> >
> >
> > Hi again,
> >
> > It seems that some stations are missing. Example: CWTA
> > Here is the comparison between an included station and one that is not:
>
> Christian,
>
> I will look into this missing report. I believe the problem is with the
> format of the reports being inconsistent. ie some have a second line
> after the WMO header with the word "METAR", "MTR", etc and some are
> missing the line.  Most reports have the second "PIL" line.  The code is
> old and not very flexible in catching all variations.  It might be awhile
> until I get to this problem.
>
> Robb...
>
>
> >
> > ^C^A^M^M
> > 844 ^M^M
> > SACN95 KWBC 231415^M^M
> > METAR CWTA 231400Z AUTO 21005KT 27/19 RMK AO1 SLP121 T02670193^M^M
> > 50003=^M^M
> >
> > ^C^A^M^M
> > 511 ^M^M
> > SACN47 CWAO 231400^M^M
> > METAR CYHU 231400Z 22011KT 8SM FEW061 FEW090 BKN220 27/20 A2988 RMK^M^M
> > SC1AC1CI1 HAZY SLP118=^M^M
> >
> > Any idea why?
> >
> > Christian Page
> > UQAM
> >
> > On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Peter Neilley wrote:
> >
> > > Christian,
> > >
> > >   Use the pqsuft utility already in the LDM.  This breaks up bulletins 
> > > containing
> > > METARs into individual "bulletins", one "bulletin" per METAR.  You can 
> > > then
> > > FILE the metars by ICAO ID.
> > >
> > > To do this,  add a line like this to you ldmd.conf file
> > >
> > >    exec    "pqsurf -p ^(S[APX]) -Q /home/ldm/data/pqsurf.pq -d /home/ldm 
> > > /home/ldm/etc/pqsurf.conf"
> > >
> > > and then create a pqsurf.conf file that has an entry something like:
> > >
> > >    WMO     ^(metar|speci) (....) ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])  FILE  
> > > /home/ldm/data/(\3:yyyy)(\3:mm)\3\4.\2.metar
> > >
> > > Which creates files named <YYYYMMDD>.<ICAO>.metar.
> > >
> > > You will need to create a pqsurf product queue using "ldmadmin 
> > > mksurfqueue".
> > >
> > > Peter Neilley
> > > WSI
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I want to put METAR reports in individual (text) station files, e.g. 
> > > > have one
> > > > file for each station reporting a METAR (or SPECI). Is it possible? Or 
> > > > does
> > > > anybody have written a script or a program to do that?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Christian Page
> > > > UQAM
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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> Robb Kambic                              Unidata Program Center
> Software Engineer III                    Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
> address@hidden                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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