20040420: 20040319: Gempak - Solaris 8 - decoding drops with dcuair

Megan,

You are decoding each of the drops100x.txt to the same test.gem file, which
only has 24 times allowed in it. The confusion is that I meant to merge the
decoded content from three separate files into a new created file (actually 
using the SNMOD program) created with SNCFIL to allow more than 24 times.

You should be able to do the following:

dcuair -c 021004/0000 -b 2000 -m 24 -a 2000 test1.gem < drops1001.txt
dcuair -c 021004/0000 -b 2000 -m 24 -a 2000 test2.gem < drops1002.txt
dcuair -c 021004/0000 -b 2000 -m 24 -a 2000 test3.gem < drops1003.txt

You can ignore the "-p snmerg.pack" as it is the default.

Then, create a new sounding file with SNCFIL:
 SNOUTF   = testmerg.gem
 SNPRMF   =  
 STNFIL   =  
 MRGDAT   = no
 TIMSTN   = 200/2000
 GEMPAK-SNCFIL>r

 SNCFIL PARAMETERS: 

 New sounding file:     testmerg.gem                                            
    
 Station file:                                                                  
    
 Number of stations in STNFIL:       0
 Number of additional stations:   2000
 Total number of stations:        2000
 Total number of times:            200

 This file will be an unmerged sounding file containing 
 mandatory and significant data below and above 100 mb.

Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
 Parameters requested: SNOUTF,SNPRMF,STNFIL,MRGDAT,TIMSTN.
 GEMPAK-SNCFIL>

Again here, the SNPRMF is blank and will use the snmerg.pack file.
Note that these are unmerged files from the decoder.

--------------------------------------------------------------

Now use SNMOD to copy over each existing file into the new testmer.gem file

 SNFILE   = test1.gem
 SNOUTF   = testmerg.gem
 SNPARM   = dset
 AREA     = dset
 DATTIM   = all
 LEVELS   = all
 VCOORD   = pres
 TIMSTN   = 200/2000
 MRGDAT   = no
 IDNTYP   = stnm
 GEMPAK-SNMOD>r

 <stuff>

 SNFILE = test2.gem
 GEMPAK-SNMOD>r

 <stuff>

 SNFILE = test3.gem
GEMPAK-SNMOD>r

 <stuff>


At this point, you should be able to use your combined
file as merged or unmerged in SNLISt etc.

Steve CHiswell



>From: Megan Gentry <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200404202059.i3KKxgCT006461

>Thanks for your help!
>I do have a question about using SNMERG though.  I've been using the following
>commands to try and combine soundings from three different days into one file.
> ..
>drops1001.txt
>drops1002.txt
>drops1003.txt
>The total number of dropsondes over all three days is 65.  So, my -a parameter
>  of
>2000 should be more than sufficient.  However, when I look at the soundings in
>SNLIST, only the first 49 soundings processed are showing up.
>I can decode all three days into individual files, so I know that the problem
>isn't with the sounding data.  Does snmerg only allow a certain number of
>soundings to be in one file?  Or is it that one of the flags in my dcuair comm
> and
>isn't set correctly?
>Thanks,
>Megan Gentry
>
>
>Unidata Support wrote:
>
>> Megan,
>>
>> This sounds like you either don't have enough stations allowed in your
>> created file, or you have run out of time slots. my guess is that your
>> drops10.txt has more than 24 hours worth of data....for example,
>> in SNLIST, using DATTIM=list, you may see times from the previous day.
>>
>> The best way to work with this is to use the YYYYMMDD template
>> in your output file name, instead of test.gem. This way, each file will
>> have one day or 24 hours in the file. If you need to combine the data into
>> a single file later, then you can use SNMERG to copy multiple files
>> into a single file, but at least with the decoder, in order to accomplish
>> the hourly bins with -m 24, the initial step should be daily files.
>>
>> The other p[ossibility would be you are allowing space for 1000 additional
>> stations (the -a flag) in your data set....and since you have dropsondes,
>> they won't be in the snstns.tbl file. Depending on the number of dropsondes
>> you have, you may need to increase that.....but that wouldn't be likely for
>> broadcast data....but would be more likely if you had field experiment data.
>>
>> Steve Chiswell
>>
>> >From: "Megan Gentry" <address@hidden>
>> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>> >Keywords: 200403192136.i2JLasQB029999
>>
>> >Institution: NC State Forecasting Lab
>> >Package Version: 5.6
>> >Operating System: Solaris 8
>> >Hardware Information: Sun workstation
>> >Inquiry: I'm trying to decode several dropsondes using dcuair.  I\'m having
>  tr
>> > ouble getting them all decoded with hourly entries.  I used the following 
> com
>> > mand and all of the dropsondes were decoded...
>> >dcuair -c 021004/0000 -b 1000 -m 150 -a 1000 test.gem < drops10.txt
>> >However, this only produced entries every 3 hours.  I read up on the -m opt
> ion
>> >  and realized that I should have set it to 24 to have entries hourly. So I
>  us
>> > ed the same command, only with the -m option changed to 24.  This time I g
> ot
>> > hourly entries.  However, when I used snlist to look at the dropsondes, th
> e o
>> > nes near the end of the dataset were missing.  The dcuair.log file had the
>  sa
>> > me number of bulletins read and processed with both commands.
>> >Is there another option that I need to change when I reset -m to 24?
>> >Thanks,
>> >Megan
>> >
>> >
>> >
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