[GEMPAK #KEM-906024]: GEMPAK - SIGBUFR

Hello Flavio,

I believe the error is due to the SIGBUF24 entry in $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl 
not being where the BUFR files reside.  I have sigwx BUFR files stored to 
$GEMDATA/sigwx/bufrfiles, the default configuration, and I can reproduce the 
error that you are seeing by intentionally misspelling the directory in 
datatype.tbl.

the default entries for 18 and 24 hr forecasts are:

$/data/ldm/gempak/sigwx/bufrfiles> grep bufrfiles $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl
SIGBUF18     $SIGWX/bufrfiles          JU*D*.YYYYMMDDHH                         
        CAT_NIL  SCAT_NIL   -1     -1     -1      OFF/0/0      4
SIGBUF24     $SIGWX/bufrfiles        JU*E*.YYYYMMDDHH                           
      CAT_NIL  SCAT_NIL   -1     -1     -1      OFF/0/0      4


So you only need to change the SIGBUFR24 directory to $SIGWX - or move the data 
files to $SIGWX/bufrfiles, then run sigbufr again and you should see the text 
files written to local directory.

-Michael 
Unidata



> SIGBUFR converts all the High Level (SWH) and Mid Level (SWM)  Significant 
> Weather BUFR files for a specified date/time and  forecast hour to at most 
> two ASCII output files using the UKMET  browsable dataset format. INPUT 
> PARAMETERS sigbufr    YYMMDD/HHNN FF hi_outfile.name+mid_outfile.name sigbufr 
>        Program name YYMMDD/HHNN    GEMPAK date/time YY - year, MM - month, DD 
> - day, HH - hour, NN - minutes FF             Valid forecast hour (must be 18 
> or 24) outfile.name   Output file names (optional)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I would like to get some help with this program.
> I'm typing the parameters below and getting the error message:
> " No BUFR files found for 140324/0600F24"
> previsor@ldm-gempak-cnma:/data/ldm/data/gempak/sigwx$ sigbufr 140324/0600 24 
> hi_sigwxhi.txt+mid_sigwxmid.txt
> [SIGBUFR -2]  No BUFR files found for 140324/0600F24
>  [SIGBUFR 6]  Feature count is 0
>  [CAS -2]  Cannot close file mid_sigwxmid.txt
> previsor@ldm-gempak-cnma:/data/ldm/data/gempak/sigwx$ 
> 
> The bufr files are placed in the following directory: 
> /data/ldm/data/gempak/sigwx , as shown below.
> 
> 
> previsor@ldm-gempak-cnma:~$ $SIGWX
> -bash: /data/ldm/data/gempak/sigwx: Is a directory
> previsor@ldm-gempak-cnma:~$ cd /data/ldm/data/gempak/sigwx
> previsor@ldm-gempak-cnma:/data/ldm/data/gempak/sigwx$ ls
> 20140324_0600_JUBE99_KKCI.bufr  20140324_0600_JUTE00_KKCI.bufr  
> JUME00.2014032406
> 20140324_0600_JUCE00_KKCI.bufr  20140324_0600_JUVE00_KKCI.bufr  
> JUNE00.2014032406
> 20140324_0600_JUJE00_KKCI.bufr  20140324_0600_JUWE96_KKCI.bufr  
> JUOE00.2014032406
> 20140324_0600_JUME00_KKCI.bufr  JUBE99.2014032406               
> JUTE00.2014032406
> 20140324_0600_JUNE00_KKCI.bufr  JUCE00.2014032406-CAT           
> JUVE00.2014032406
> 20140324_0600_JUOE00_KKCI.bufr  JUJE00.2014032406               
> JUWE96.2014032406.bufr
> 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Flavio Cerqueira
> 
> Aviation Weather service-Brazil
> 

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: KEM-906024
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Open