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20000920: configuring NWX to display METARS

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  • Subject: 20000920: configuring NWX to display METARS
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 11:02:33 -0600
>From: Anthony Rockwood - MSCD Meteorology <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200009201541.e8KFfbb26801

>Chiz,
>
>Could you give me (or point me to) a quick review on how to configure NWX
>to display METARS ?  I have a METAR icon in my Observations/Data Type menu
>but all the red "boxes" say "No data available for Kxxx".
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tony
>
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>   Anthony A. Rockwood              Metropolitan State College of Denver    
>   Meteorology Program              Dept.of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences 
>   303.556.8399                     P.O. Box 173362, Campus Box 22
>   address@hidden                Denver, CO  80217-3362                  
>   fax: 303.556.4436                www.mscd.edu/~eas
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>
>

Tony,

Your $NWX_TABLES/master.tbl file will have an entry (probably at the bottom)
which looks like:
OBS_METAR    metar.stn    R $RAW_SAO                                 wmo

That will look in the directory defined by $RAW_SAO for files with the
extension .wmo. So, you need to have RAW_SAO defined in your
environment (which you can check in your Gemenviron file). And,
you need your LDM to store the raw metars in that directory with .wmo
extensions.

For what its worth....this will be easier in the new release since NWX
will use the decoded gempak files with the TEXT field.

Steve CHiswell