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[GEMPAK #LBF-160380]: dcmetr question

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  • Subject: [GEMPAK #LBF-160380]: dcmetr question
  • Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 11:10:37 -0600
Pete,

Actually we are adding FOS not AFOS characters (the AFOS are ZCZC and NNNN,
while the FOS are the SOH \r \r \m and \r \r \n ETX that the script I sent
previously had).

Your problem is that you have a superfluous string of "2007/05/23 17:06"
in your text, and do not have a valid WMO header. Delete the date string
and replace with "SAUS80 KWBC 231700"

The 231700 is the day, hour, and minute of a bulletin. You could automate this
through a simple script to replace the line with a generated WMO header
which must have the form TTAAII CCCC DDHHNN. 

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


> Hi..
> 
> What header/trailer info does dcmetr expect?
> 
> I am attempting to decode METAR reports obtained from NOAA's ftp site
> using dcmetr.  Each ob is stored in its own ascii file. Example - KNEW.TXT
> contains 2 lines:
> 
> 2007/05/23 17:06
> KNEW 231706Z AUTO 1601G29KT 10SM TS SCT026 BKN031 OVC070 23/17 A3013 RMK
> A02 PK WND 14029/1657 WSHFT 1649 LTG DSNT N AND SE AND S
> 
> There are no AFOS header/trailer lines nor other header info.  Running it
> thru addafos.csh and dcmetr yields errors as follows:
> 
> cat KNEW.TXT | ./addafos.csh | dcmetr -a 500 -v 2 -m 72 YYYYMMDD.hrly
> 
> (log file contents)
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC 3]  Starting up. Version 5.10.2
> [20839] 070523/1433[DCMETR 7]  DCMETR version:  3.3
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC 2]  read 163/102399 bytes strt 0 newstrt 163
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC -16]  Invalid time
> [20839] 070523/1433[DCMETR 2]  000 2007/05/23 17:06 KNEW 231706Z AUTO
> 16016G29KT 10SM TS SCT026
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC 2]  read 0/102237 bytes strt 163 newstrt 163
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC -9]  End of input data file.
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC 5]  Normal termination.
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 1
> [20839] 070523/1433[DC 6]  Shutting down.
> 
> Pete
> 
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: LBF-160380
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed