[GEMPAK #KEM-906024]: GEMPAK - SIGBUFR

Hi Flavio,

Thank you for sending the attached image.  I will look into this and get back 
to you.

Michael


> Dear  Michael,
> I've sent a message recently asking about some suggestions related to overlay 
> label's problem on SIGWX buffer displayed with GEMPAK. I wonder how I could 
> change the position of the label(ISOL EMBD CB 400/xxx). Please, if could take 
> a look to the image attached.
> I don't know if you received my first message about it.
> Thank you very much !
> Flavio Cerqueira.
> Aviation Weather service-Brazil
> 
> On Tuesday, March 25, 2014 4:28 PM, Unidata GEMPAK Support <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
> 
> 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
> ===================
> Ticket ID: KEM-906024
> Department: Support GEMPAK
> Priority: Normal
> Status: Open
> 


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