20000614: 20000613: decoding profiler problems

Chuck,

If you want current/realtime profiler data- then I suggest you 
use the dcncprof decoder for the hourly and 6 minute profiler data in the
FSL2 data stream.

If you have old archived data in the BUFR format that you absolutely have to 
get at, then
we can work on that- but the NetCDF data gives you both options of hourly and 6 
minute
so that would be the prefered route for the future. I haven't looked at the 
BUFR stream
in quite some time, so there may be changes between FOS and NOAAPORT.

I checked, and I see that theta.eas.slu.edu is already receiving the FSL2 feed:
Jun 14 15:22:25 notifyme[4395446]: NOTIFYME(theta.eas.slu.edu): OK
Jun 14 15:22:30 notifyme[4395446]:    11988 20000614142715.331    FSL2 000  
FSL.NetCDF.NOAAnet.windprofiler.01hr.20001661400.*
Jun 14 15:22:32 notifyme[4395446]:   177528 20000614143032.831    FSL2 000  
FSL.NetCDF.NOAAnet.windprofiler.06min.20001661412.*


So, the thing to do is make sure you have dcncprof built (it requires the 
NetCDF library
so it doesn't get built by default).

Once NetCDF is installed, edit the file $NAWIPS/config/Makeinc.common and
define the locations of the include files and library respectively line:
NETCDFINC       = /usr/local/netcdf/include
NETCDF          = /usr/local/netcdf/lib/libnetcdf.a

Then just build the dcncprof (and dcacars if you want to get the PCWS data 
stream
from FSL to look at he aircraft observations/soundings).

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

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


LDM pattern/actions shown in the pqact.conf examples in the GEMPAK www pages 
look like:
# FSL NetCDF Wind Profiler
FSL2    ^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(01hr)\.(.*)\..*
        PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcncprof -v
        -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
        data/gempak/profiler/YYYYMMDD_pro.gem
FSL2    
^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(06min)\........(0[0-9]|1[01])..\..*
        PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcncprof -v
        -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
        data/gempak/profiler/YYYYMMDD00_6min.gem
FSL2    
^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(06min)\........(1[2-9]|2[0-3])..\..*
        PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcncprof -v
        -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
        -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
        data/gempak/profiler/YYYYMMDD12_6min.gem
#


Let me know if your have any questions/problems.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: "Dr. Charles Graves" <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200006141324.e5EDOsT14495

>Tom,
>
>Sorry about the terse e-mail....the system frozen so I assumed the mail
>wasn't sent.  Here's the problem.  I'm trying to decode the hourly
>profiler (not the 6 minute) using dcprof from GEMPAK (5.4 pl 16).
>
>The pqact which saves the file to disk is:
>
>HRS     ^IUPT.* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        FILE    /rtmet/ldm/data/profiler/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1.pro
>
>The command to decode is:
>
>/eas/met/nawips/bin/sol/dcprof -c 000612/1200 -d - -v 0 \
>  -p /met/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/pack/profiler.pack \
>  -s /met/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/stns/profiler.stn \
>  /met/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/grid/tableb \
>  /met/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/grid/tabled YYYYMMDD_pro.gem \
>  < /eas/met/ldm/data/profiler/20000612.pro
>
>The output of this command is:
>DCPROF[2169]: 000614/1307: Starting up.
>lenb 0
> iperr   -1  0
>DCPROF[2169]: 000614/1307: Normal Termination.
>DCPROF[2169]: 000614/1307: Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>DCPROF[2169]: 000614/1307: Shutting Down.
>
>The file:
>ls -l /eas/met/ldm/data/profiler/20000612.pro
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      met       363297 Jun 12 18:20 /eas/met/ldm/data/profil
> er/20000612.pro
>
>The routine is acting as if the BUFR record is 0 bytes?
>
>Any help would be appreciated.  If you are interested I have placed a
>copy of that profiler data (20000612.pro) on our anonymous ftp site:
>
>ftp.eas.slu.edu:/pub/incoming/unidata
>
>Thanks again,
>Chuck
>