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>From: David Fitzgerald <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200102221726.f1MHQbL21514 >Hello, > >I have been asked to set up processing NOGAPS and /mETA_84 model data >here at MU. I am a little confused at to what regular expression needs >to go into the second field of the pqact.conf entry for these models. >For example I use ^Y.Q... for my /mAVN model. Where do I look for the >expressions to use for NOGAPS and /mETA_84, and for that matter other >models? > > >Thanks!! > >Dave > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >David Fitzgerald >System Administrator Phone: (717) 871-2394 >Millersville University Fax: (717) 871-4725 >Millersville, PA 17551 E-mail: address@hidden > David, I show expressions for each model at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl For ETA data, each of the 4 grids available on NOAAPORT can be specified in the third letter of the WMO heading as shown below: # NOAAport ETA grids # Grid #211 80km CONUS: ^[YZ].Q.*/mETA # Grid #212 40km CONUS: ^[YZ].R.*/mETA # Grid #215 20km CONUS: ^[YZ].U.*/mETA # Grid #214 47.5km Alaska: ^[YZ].T.*/mETA # Select any/all grids desired from [QRUT] HRS ^[YZ].[QRUT].*/mETA For dcgrib and dcgrib2, you can use the @@@ template to send each different grid projection to its own grid file (eg 211, 212, 215 etc). Or, you can use dcgrib2 with the $GEMTBL/grid/gribkey.tbl file to automatically name the output file based on the model numbers included in the grib products. If you are getting the NOGAPS feed from fnmoc, the file names for the global 240 grid look like: NOGAPS ^US058GMET-GR1mdl.0058_0240 To make things easier in dcgrib2, I just show a single global pattern for sending all grib data to the decoder: HDS|NMC2|NOGAPS ^(/u/ftp/gateway|[HOYZ]|US058).* PIPE decoders/dcgrib2 -d data/gempak/logs/dcgrib.log -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/tables With no file name specified, dcgrib2 uses the gribkey.tbl file to determine the file name template for every product. This is set up to match the file names expected in the $GEMTBL/config/datatype.tbl file for NMAP. Steve Chiswell