Re: difax scripts and ps files (fwd)

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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:28:13 -0600
From: Ben Domenico <address@hidden>
To: "Techies@Unidata. Edu" <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: difax scripts and ps files  (fwd)

It sounds like some steps are being taken to test a genuine imitation difax 
feed from Wisconsin to other institutions in the community.

Thanks to Jeff and Pete.

-- Ben

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Date: Friday, October 13, 2000 12:03 PM -0500
From: Pete Pokrandt <address@hidden>
To: Jeff Weber <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: difax scripts and ps files


In a previous message to me, you wrote:

  >Hi Pete,
  >
  >After some discussions here at the UPC, we thought it might be nice to
  try >some ingestion of your postscript GEMPAK imagery via the LDM difax
  feed to >a few select universities. Would you still be willing to do
  this, and are >you currently feeding anyone with success? If not, do you
  have any >suggestions as to who might be logical test arenas for this
  data transfer?   >I am more than happy to find some lucky recipients for
  this data if you do >not have a preference.

Jeff,

I was actually just in the process of working on this. Eric Hoffman at
Plymouth State College had asked me about the possibility of receiving
our gzip'd ps files, so I've been playing around with it. They are
not actually ingesting anything yet, but could make a good test case.

I have found an easy way to modify the 11x17 maps I create so they are
shrunk down and print correctly on 8.5x11 paper, though reading glasses
are probably a necessity cause the type is really small.

I'll get all of our scripts set to pqinsert the maps into my ldm queue
on mapmaker.meteor.wisc.edu, using the EXP type for now.  I currently
plan to broadcast all of our maps, including two copies of the large
format maps, one formatted for 11x17 and one shrunk down for 8.5x11.

I have a machine here set to ingest the maps from mapmaker, so I can
do some testing and come up with an example set of pqact.conf entries
to ingest our maps and save to disk, or possibly pipe directly to a
gzip/lpr combo.

If you want to begin ingesting the files out at Unidata while I am in
the process of adding maps to the stream, let me know what machine to
add an ALLOW for. As of this minute, the MRF/Ensemble 4-panel maps
(8.5x11 by default) are being inserted using the EXP data type.

The file names currently look like:

012hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
024hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
036hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
048hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
060hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
072hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
084hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
096hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
108hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
120hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
132hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
144hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
168hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
192hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
216hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz
240hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz

So a pqact entry something like

EXP   ^(...)hmrf4panel.*
         FILE    /your/data/path.\1hrmrf4panel00Z.ps.gz

Should save it to a file. Probably a more elegant way to do
that, I just did it here on the fly.

That runs overnight when the MRF comes in, so if you would
rather test with some files during the day, I can always just
insert some files from the archive by hand.

Anyways, Here is a list of the full suite of products that we
make and will start inserting in the queue, I'll get a list of
file names when it is finalized.

Pete

- Analyses -

US Surface (00,03.06,09,12,15,18,21) LARGE
Upper air 850 hPa (00,12)
Upper air 700 hPa (00,12)
Upper air 500 hPa (00,12)
Upper air 300 hPa (00,12)
Upper air 250 hPa (00,12)
Upper air 200 hPa (00,12)

Northern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure/1000-500 hPa Thickness analysis
(00,12) Northern Hemisphere 500 hPa heights (00,12)
Southern Hemisphere Sea Level Pressure/1000-500 hPa Thickness analysis
(00,12) Southern Hemisphere 500 hPa heights (00,12)

200 hPa Atlantic Streamline analysis (00,12)
1000 hPa Atlantic Streamline analysis (00,12)
1000 hPa Atlantic Streamline analysis (00,12)
Atlantic Surface analysis (00,12) LARGE
Pacific  Surface analysis (00,12) LARGE

Composite Moisture (00,12)

Max temps (once daily)
Min temps (once daily)

24 hour precip

-- Forecasts --

Eta 4 panel  (00,12,24,36,48) 2x daily LARGE
Eta 850 4 panel 2xdaily


NGM 4 panel  (00,12,24,36,48) 2x daily LARGE
NGM 850 4 panel 2x daily
NGM Temps MOS 4 panel 2x daily
NGM Precip MOS 4 panel 2x daily


AVN 4 panel  (00,12,24,36,48,60,72) 2x daily LARGE
AVN 850 4 panel 2xdaily
AVN Temps MOS 4 panel 2x daily

MRF 4panel (12,24,36,48,60,72,84,96,108,120,132,144,168,192,216,240) once
daily MRF Temps MOS 9 panel (1x daily)

ECMWF 2 panel (00,24,48,72,96,120,144,168)



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