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19991021: !Specify gempak5.4/tables/* in pqact.conf?

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  • Subject: 19991021: !Specify gempak5.4/tables/* in pqact.conf?
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 16:35:58 -0600
Neil,
the -g flag passes the GEMTBL directory location to dcgrib
since its not generally set as an environmental variable in the
LDM users profile.

It should point to $NAWIPS/gempak5.4/tables/
All of the gempak programs know to look in grid, stns, colors, luts
etc under that directory as needed.

You do need to correct that entry in your pqact.conf.

The other possible reason for a mismatch of grids is that the IDD
data stream HDS carries these models on several different grid 
projections, and each grid projection needs to be written to a different file.
You can either use a separate pqact.conf entry for each grid projection,
or use the @@@ template in the file name as shown in the pqact.conf examples
on the gempak www page. The @@@ characters will be replaces by dcgrid with 
the projection of each grid received.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport




>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Dept. Meteorology, TAMU
>Keywords: 199910212248.QAA15561

>I'm getting errors logged that identify wrong center grid for dcgrib:
>
>Oct 21 19:33:29 5Q:coriolis dcgrib[1472]: Invalid center id/grid id
>combination:           7         213          52
>Oct 21 19:33:29 3Q:coriolis dcgrib[1472]: YYHK98 KWBC 211200 skipped
>991021/1200 Grid ID  213 156   1   0   0
>Oct 21 19:33:29 6Q:coriolis dcgrib[1472]: filnam
>data/gempak/hds/99102112_avn211.gem old
>data/gempak/hds/99102112_avn211.gem
>
>(lines wrapped by my mailer editor)
>
>The pqact.conf entry has 
>
>     -g /unidata/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/grid
>
>Your current example gempak entries use
>
>     -g /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
>
>where none of the underlying directories such as "grid"
>are specified.  Does this mean dcgrib knows which
>directory to go to for the correct table?  And is this
>likely the reason for my logged errors, above?
>
>-Neil
>-- 
>Neil R. Smith                          address@hidden
>Computer Systems Manager               409/845-6272 FAX:409/862-4466
>Dept. Meteorology, Texas A&M Univ.
>

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