Re: 20020122: gribtonc decoder trouble

On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Teresa Van Hove wrote:

> Robb,
> 
> THanks for the tips.  We were actually trying to get two diffent
> files with different model times out of gribtonc and I'm wondering 
> if this may be problematic.

Theresa,

This is not a problem, but you must have 2 pqact entries going to
different files.


> 
> We were trying to use this in the pqact.conf files 
> HDS  ^(H[HRT][I-P]A..) KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN)
>      PIPE      /usr/bin/gribtonc
>      -q "lin,dlat=1.25,dlon=1.25"    /usr/etc/avn-1.25x1.25.cdl
>     
> /pub/suomiday/level1a/ancMet/ancMet_(\2:yyyy).(\2:ddd).\3.00.0360_nc
> 
> HDS ^(H[HRT][I-P]C..) KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*(/mAVN|/mSSIAVN)
>     PIPE      /usr/bin/gribtonc
>     -q "lin,dlat=1.25,dlon=1.25"    /usr/etc/avn-1.25x1.25.cdl
>     /pub/suomirt/level1a/ancMet/ancMet_(\2:yyyy).(\2:ddd).\3.00.0360_nc
> 
> 
> We did continue getting normal looking files with the 1st call, but
> the 2nd call resulted in problems.  We could use an alternate CPU
> for the 2nd file we want if having 2 pipes into gribtonc with 2
> separate output files is not doable.  
> 

I just noticed that both output files from the pqact entries  have
the same name. I believe that's the problem because one cannot have 2
pipes going to one file and get consistent results. One doesn't have to do
any special things, just 2 pqact entries going to different output
files should work fine.

Robb...

> Thanks,
> Tersa
> 
> Teresa Van Hove
> Assoc Scientist II,
> GST/UCAR
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> > Doug,
> > 
> > I not sure if the problem is the request is too strict or there is a
> > problem with gribtonc. First, I would suggest making the request more
> > liberal and see if the fields are populated. If that doesn't help then I
> > would have to check if the data is being processed correctly via gribtonc.
> > 
> > Here's a more liberal request:
> > 
> >  HDS     ^(H[HRT][I-P][C-Z]..) KWB.
> > 
> > [C-Z] should give all the forecasts, some params are only on certain
> > forecasts, etc.
> > 
> > Here's the pqact entry from motherlode for the raw data:
> > 
> > #  Spectral grids - grids A,B,C,D Global grid  Forecasts (wind & waves,
> > temperature)
> > ##
> > HRS     ^H[A-Z][ABCD][A-Z][0-9][0-9] KWB. ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])..
> >         FILE
> >         data/pub/raw/hrs/model/spectral/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2_WAVE.wmo
> > 
> > Robb...
> > 
> > >
> > > (Note the C instead of the A in the first part of the regular expression
> > > on the first line).  This seems to result in lots of empty netcdf
> > > files--files with all headers and attributes but no data.  How does one
> > > get AVN forecast data via LDM?
> > >
> 

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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