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20000810: 20000810: Satellite imagery with Garp

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  • Subject: 20000810: 20000810: Satellite imagery with Garp
  • Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:10:55 -0600
Pat,

It could be that you have some files in the directory named YYMMDD and
some named YYYYMMDD. In particular, if you were running nsat_links
before to create the links to the AREAxxxx files in the mcidas directory, and 
now
you are naming the files with 4 digit years, then if you have both types in the
data directories- one of those will get things confused.

To see all of the files under $SAT,

cd $SAT
ls -R

That wills how all the files under the sat directory. If you have a mix of 
naming
conventions, change them all to YYYY.

Steve Chiswell

>From: Local Data Manager <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200008102309.e7AN9MT28496

>Steve:
>
>Thank you for your quick reply (and thanks also for your help with snrawd---I
>can remember if I said so before, but if I did, then thanks again!)
>
>I made the changes to Garp_defaults; the satT was set to YY.  I also changed
>the sat: also to reduce the non-existant labels.  In addition, I commented
>nsat_links out of the ldm crontab and added an extra line to the scour.conf
>file.
>
>However, GARP still does not display satellite imagery.  A clue comes with thi
> s
>also, several actually.  First, the error message is now:
>
> Invoke ... /asp/met/nawips/bin/sol/garp
>G A R P - v2.1 starting...
>!!!!!Whoa!!!!!!  Free() got a 0x0
>ch_to_int_time: Invalid year, 8
>
>
>*and* when I try to display GOES-8 or -10 IR or VIS imagery, the correct numbe
> r of
>file times somes up, but they all display the same date and time stamp.  This 
> also
>happens for the Floater imagery.
>
>I won't be in much tomorrow, but my assistant, Stacy will be.  She should be a
> ble to
>continue this dialogue with you.  If not, I'll be back on Monday.
>
>Thanks again, Steve.
>
>Pat
>