20000727: Raw Radar reports

Chris,

In order to improve reliability for outages (such as we had this week),
Robb Kambic and Jeff Weber have been working to add weather underground's
noaaport reception into the top level ring of NOAAport receivers. This
will give more backup/failover choices.

My guess is that we need to filter out the SDUS5x products which
we have done for the rest of the top level sites. These are the encrypted
nids products that you can't view yet.

You might want to:
grep '[A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][0-9].* [A-Z][A-Z][A-Z][A-Z] [0-3][0-9][0-2][0-9]'
on your .RAD files to see what headers are in the big files.

This will probably see a lot of SDUS8x products which are DPA products
but should be very small. The SDUS4x prods are the RCM and ROB.

If you see SDUS5x's, then we have to get these out of the data stream since
many sites don't have the bandwidth to handle these.
But...they will eventually be unencrypted so we look forward to
providing these to everyone! Probably as a new feedtype so that users
can be more selective on what they get.

Let me know what you find for headers.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, C. Vandersip wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
>        ###############################################################
>        #                      Chris Vandersip                        #
>        #        Computer Research Specialist/Dept. Sysadmin          #
>        #  Rm. 024, Dept. of Meteorology, Florida State University    #
>        #          address@hidden   (850)644-2522                     #
>        ###############################################################
> 
> 
>