[GEMPAK #CSI-145319]: dcmetr and Antarctic AWS sites

Robert,

I clipped out your metar and sent it to dcmetr and it decoded:
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC 3]  Starting up. Version 5.9.4
[2273920] 061109/1104[DCMETR 7]  DCMETR version:  3.3
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC 2]  read 89/102399 bytes strt 0 newstrt 89
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC 2]  read 0/102311 bytes strt 89 newstrt 89
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC -9]  End of input data file.
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC 5]  Normal termination.
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 1
[2273920] 061109/1104[DC 6]  Shutting down.

 GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
 PARM = PMSL;ALTI;TMPC;DWPC;SKNT;DRCT;GUST;WNUM;CHC1;CHC2;CHC3;VSBY;P03D;P03I;  
 
        MSUN;SNOW;WEQS;P24I;TDXC;TDNC;P03C;CTYL;CTYM;CTYH;P06I;T6XC;T6NC;CEIL;  
 
        P01I                                                                    
 

    STN    YYMMDD/HHMM      PMSL     ALTI     TMPC     DWPC     SKNT     DRCT
                            GUST     WNUM     CHC1     CHC2     CHC3     VSBY
                            P03D     P03I     MSUN     SNOW     WEQS     P24I
                            TDXC     TDNC     P03C     CTYL     CTYM     CTYH
                            P06I     T6XC     T6NC     CEIL     P01I
   BIWS    061109/1700  -9999.00 -9999.00   -13.00   -20.00     3.00   210.00
                        -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00
                        -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00
                        -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00
                        -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00 -9999.00

when you say nothing happened, I'm assuming that you mean you have no files 
named
YYYYMMDD_saot.gem in your surface directory? If you do, then you are probably 
just waiting for
the data to flush the write before you can see it (without any other data, the 
decoder will flush in 600 seconds by default but can be adjusted with -t).

Otherwise, you might want to do some tests by cat'ing the FILE'd bulletin to 
the decoder
so you can test things out with -v 4. You can send me one of your metar 
bulletins for me to try if you 
still have trouble.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

> 
> The SPAWAR folks have deployed some weather stations around McMurdo and are 
> transmitting the obs in METAR format on the Antarctic-IDD.  I am saving the 
> obs in raw form, but it would be ideal to use dcmetr to decode them.  Here is 
> what the bulletin looks like when saved to disk(the obs are generally every 
> 15 minutes):
> 
> ^A^M
> 721^M
> SAAA10 SSCC 091700^M
> METAR BIWS 091700Z AUTO 21003KT M13/M20 RMK A01=^M
> ^C
> 
> 
> Even though it has a header, it is not being sent through the NWS Gateway.  I 
> added an entry for BIWS in sfmetar_sa.tbl:
> 
> BIWS      99999 BLACK ISLAND AWS(ANTARC)         -- NZ  7813  16615   213
> 
> and created a pqact entry as a test:
> 
> EXP    ^USAP\.NZCM\.AWS\.BIWS\.(........).(..)(..)
> PIPE    decoders/dcmetr -v 2 -a 500 -m 72 -s sfmetar_sa.tbl
> -d data/gempak/logs/dcmetrt.log
> -e GEMTBL=/usr/gempak/GEMPAK5.9.3/gempak/tables
> data/gempak/surface/YYYYMMDD_saot.gem
> 
> 
> However, nothing gets decoded.  This is what dcmetrt.log says:
> 
> [5945] 061109/1646[DC 3]  Starting up. Version 5.9.3
> [5945] 061109/1651[DC 2]  Interrupt Signal
> [5945] 061109/1651[DC 5]  Normal termination.
> [5945] 061109/1651[DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
> [5945] 061109/1651[DC 6]  Shutting down.
> [6084] 061109/1701[DC 3]  Starting up. Version 5.9.3
> [6084] 061109/1701[DCMETR 7]  DCMETR version:  3.3
> [6084] 061109/1701[DC 2]  read 79/204799 bytes strt 0 newstrt 79
> 
> It read the file (79 bytes is right), but then nothing happens.
> 
> Is there any chance this can be successfully decoded?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert Mullenax
> NMSU/PSL/CSBF Meteoroology
> 
> 
> 


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: CSI-145319
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed