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20000323: Decoder for the FSL2 profiler data

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  • Subject: 20000323: Decoder for the FSL2 profiler data
  • Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:20:42 -0700
Gregg,
dcncprof is part of the GEMPAK distribution. If this is already installed,
you will find it in the $GEMEXE directory. Previous versions of GEMPAK did
not automatically build this since you have to have NetCDF library installed
first.

If the decoder has not yet been built, then

1) Define the locations of your NetCDF library and include file in the
   NETCDF and NETCDFINC variables in $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.common

2) build and install the decoder with:

        cd $NAWIPS/unidata/ldmbridge/dcncprof
        make clean
        make all
        make install
        make clean

The Garp_defaults file I distribute has the key predefined for the 6 minute
files:
profilerK       : 6min

The pqact.conf actions I have look like:
# FSL NetCDF Wind Profiler
FSL2    ^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(01hr)\.(.*)\..*
        PIPE    -close  decoders/dcncprof -v
        -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK6/gempak/tables
        data/gempak/profiler/YYYYMMDD_pro.gem
FSL2
^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(06min)\........(0[0-9]|1[01])..\..*
        PIPE    -close  decoders/dcncprof -v
        -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK6/gempak/tables
        data/gempak/profiler/YYYYMMDD00_6min.gem
FSL2
^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(06min)\........(1[2-9]|2[0-3])..\..*
        PIPE    -close  decoders/dcncprof -v
        -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK6/gempak/tables
        data/gempak/profiler/YYYYMMDD12_6min.gem


This creates 2 6minute files per day and 1 hourly summary file per day.
The -e flag sets the GEMTBL environmental variable for the decoder 
for the station and packing tables.

An example of the display is at:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/examples/profiler/6min.gif

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Gregory Grosshans wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Where can I obtain the profiler decoder that works with the LDM FSL2 data
> stream?  I checked the decoders.tar.Z file and didn't see the profiler decoder
> you mentioned the other day.  I talked to Bob Lipschutz about obtaining 
> access to
> the FSL2 stream and he also mentioned the data is in NetCDF format.
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregg
>