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Patrick, Use the dcmsfc pattern as shown in $NAWIPS/ldm/etc/templates/gempak_decoders.in In particular, you have not specified the "-a" number of additional stations to allow in the file (I use 10000), and you should decode into hourly files using the template YYYYMMDDHH_sb.gem. The decoder will use the 307 coastal, cman and fixed buoy stations defined in the msfstns.tbl file when creating the file, but you must use the -a flag to allow additional stations (ships of opportunity, dribu) that will be received. Typically I have around 2000+ stations in the 00Z file. You are running out of room in your file so only seeing the 00Z data. You also have an error that the decoder can't find $GEMTBL/pack/msfc.pack, so varify that this is available (it could be a symptom of your file being full, so its possible that it will go away when you fix your pqact.conf entry). Steve Chiswell >From: "Patrick S. Market" <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200307021647.h62Gl5Ld016211 >Steve: > >Thanks again. I should have thought of the PACK file. My bad. > >But, since I'm upgrading this week and last, I have several other >problems. The current one regards the DCMSFC program. I >have been unable to get it to work reliably. My current pqact.conf >configuration seems only to run once per day, at 0000 UTC. It is: > >### >DDS|IDS ^S([INS]V.*|MV[^NS].*) .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]) > PIPE /asp/met/nawips56j/bin/sol/dcmsfc -v > -d /usr/local/ldm/logs/dcmsfc.log > -e GEMTBL=/asp/met/nawips56j/gempak/tables > /res/met/data/ldm/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_sb.gem >### > >with the following dcmsfc.log results > > >[26798] 030702/1142 [DC 6] >[26800] 030702/1142 [DC 3] Version 5.6.j >[26800] 030702/1142 [IN -11] msfc.pack >[26800] 030702/1142 [FL -1] >[26800] 030702/1142 [DC 5] >[26800] 030702/1142 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0 >[26800] 030702/1142 [DC 6] > >There would seem to be a myriad problems with my pqact entry, yet >reading over the manual and online archive searches have not yielded >a workable solution. > >Pat > > >> >> >> Patrick, >> >> The suominet parameters (shown in the suomi.pack file) are: >> PRES pressure millibars >> TMPC temperature celsius >> PWVM Precipitable water vapor in millimeters >> PWVE Precipitable water vapor format error millimeters >> DELW wet delay millimeters >> DELD Model Dry delay millimeters >> DELT Total delay millimeters >> DELF final delay >> PIFC PI factor (conversion from wet delay to PWVM) >> MFLG Met flag >> >> For more information on the netCDF file, you can use "ncdump -h" >> on the netcdf file. >> >> I have set up NMAP2 with the the suominet data defined in the >> prmlst.tbl for color coded plots. >> >> Steve Chiswell >> > > >-- >======================================================================== >Dr. Patrick S. Market >Dept. of Atmospheric Science >University of Missouri-Columbia Phone: (573) 882 - 1496 >387 McReynolds Hall Fax: (573) 884 - 5133 >Columbia, MO 65211 USA E-mail: address@hidden >======================================================================== >