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19990226: Capturing all upper air soundings via LDM

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  • Subject: 19990226: Capturing all upper air soundings via LDM
  • Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:03:46 -0700
>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden>
>Organization: Northern Illinois University
>Keywords: 199902261546.IAA10266 pqact.conf

Gilbert-

>I have been getting segmentation faults from WXP because I am using a
>pattern of U* when capturing all TTAA/TTBB/TTCC/TTDD reports from 
>the RAOB sites around the world. DO you have a better pattern that you
>use? I am capturing a lot of stuff that is more than likely hosing the
>program.

We user the following for our supported packages:

decoders (ua2nc):

#
# upper air perl decoder
DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])
        PIPE    /usr/local/ldm/decoders/ua2nc
                etc/ua.cdl
                data/decoded
                (\1:yy)(\1:mm)

GEMPAK (dcuair):

# upper air reports
#
DDS|IDS ^U[ABDEFGHIJKLMPQRSTXZ].... .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
        PIPE    /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcuair -v 1 -b 24 -n -m 16
        -d data/gempak/logs/dcuair.log
        -p /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/pack/snmerg.pack
        -s /home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables/stns/snworld.tbl
        data/gempak/upperair/YYMMDD_upa.gem

McIDAS-XCD (from WMORTE LIST DDS):

PILOT    UA     UA UB
RAOB     UJ     UJ UE UF UK UL UM UP US UG UX


These also include the PPAA, PPBB, PPCC, PPDD reports.

Don Murray