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20010228: RUC and decoders

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  • Subject: 20010228: RUC and decoders
  • Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:41:58 -0700
Tom,
Your pqact pattern is wrong. A RUC pattern is shown on:
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl
as:
HRS     ^[YZ].[Q].*/mRUC

The problem with your pattern is that you are specifying KWBC. However,
only the f000 grids are KWBC. The distribution center being used for all the
forecast hours of the RUC is KWBG. 

You could use KWB. or KWB[GC] or just wildcard the entire thing
as the dcgrib example does.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support




>From: Tom Priddy <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200102282109.f1SL9dL14026

>From: Tom Priddy
>
>Steve....I can't seem to get the RUC to run using the example script
>below. Yet if I use
>the ruc downloaded from ftp://ftp.rap.ucar.edu/pub/weather/gempak/data/
>I can get an
>850/700/500 just no sfc forecasts. Any ideas?  Could my decoder be the
>problem?
>Should I be using dcgrib2?
>
># RUC MAPS model output decoded into yymmddhh_ruc.gem
>#
>HRS     ^[YZ]..... KWBC ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/mRUC
>        PIPE    /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcgrib -v -d
>data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log
>                -g /export/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.6/gempak/tables
>                PACK data/gempak/hds/YYMMDDHH_ruc.gem
>---
>GDFILE   = /ldmdata/gempak/hds/01022818_ruc.gem
> GDATTIM  = f003
> GLEVEL   = 850
> GVCORD   = PRES
> PANEL    = 0
> SKIP     = 0
> SCALE    = 999
> GFUNC    = TMPC
> CTYPE    = C
> CONTUR   = 0
> CINT     = 0
> LINE     = 3
> FINT     = 0
> FLINE    = 10-20
> HILO     =
> HLSYM    =
> CLRBAR   =
> GVECT    = WND
> WIND     = BM1
> REFVEC   =
> TITLE    = 1
> TEXT     = 1
> CLEAR    = YES
> GAREA    = WV
> PROJ     = MER
> MAP      = 1
> LATLON   = 0
> DEVICE   = XW
> STNPLT   =
>
>
>
>
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