Raw Radar reports (fwd)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: C. Vandersip <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Raw Radar reports

Tonight, I had a problem with a data disk filling up, and found out the
culprit was the raw radar reports (MDR- with SDUS header) we ingest for
use in the "weather" program.  Though these files usually average a few MB
in size, some of them have been tens to hundreds of MB in size recently.  
Is this just due to the amount of radar-detected convection, or has there
been some change in the files being fed?  Thanks in advance for any clues
anyone can provide.

Chris

Relevant pqact.conf section (now commented out! :) )

                        -- RADAR Raw Reports --
#
#WMO    ^SDUS.* .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
#       FILE    data/weather/RAD/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2.RAD


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