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Re: 20050203: IDD grib meta tags

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  • Subject: Re: 20050203: IDD grib meta tags
  • Date: 04 Feb 2005 13:49:59 -0700
Tom,

You are correct. The gribkey.tbl will still work as previous.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 13:41, Tom McDermott wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005, Unidata Support wrote:
> 
> > These metadata tags are only part of the LDM product delimeter used to 
> > help identify the product, and not part of the actual data stream 
> > products. Therefore, no change to the data will occur. However, if your 
> > site is using the /m(ETA) or /m(AVN|SSIAVN) pattern in file naming by 
> > pqact, you will need to ensure the output is to the file name convention 
> > you are expecting. If you are not using the pqact string substitution in 
> > your local file names, then other processing will be unaffected.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> So if we are using a pattern-action such as
> 
> HDS   ^[YZ].[QR].*/m(ETA|NAM)
>       PIPE    decoders/dcgrib2 -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib2_ETA.log
>               -e GEMTBL=/weather/GEMPAK5.7.2p2/gempak/tables
> 
> am I correct in stating that the name of the file would come from the 
> 'gribkey.tbl' file and, unless that 'gribkey.tbl' file is modified, the 
> file names of this model will still come out as 'YYYYMMDDHH_eta@@@.gem'?
> 
> Tom
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> 
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> >