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20030728: Texas mesonet radar

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  • Subject: 20030728: Texas mesonet radar
  • Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:05:11 -0600
Gerry,

Several points I can make here:

First, you aren't requesting FNEXRAD in your ldmd.conf file, so
it is not arriving at your computer for pqact to act on and FILE.
Thus, you will not find any files.

Second, the FNEXRAD feed contains the floater sites selected
by several of the universites participating in the IDD, and these sites will
change throughout the day. The may not be Texas sites at all.

If you want to receive specific radar sites (rather than just the 3 sites
where interesting weather is ocurring, you want to access the NNEXRAD
feed.

The FNEXRAD feed does contain the radar mosaics that we are producing here and
inserting into that data stream.

I see that coriolis is receiving both FNEXRAD and NNEXRAD, so you have both
options.

Steve Chiswell

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:

> Chiz,
>
> I've been watching all weekend and I don't seem to have NIDS.  However,
> it looks like I can't find it anywhere in the data structure.
>
> The pqact.conf fragment looks like this:
>
> FNEXRAD ^SDUS. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...)
>          FILE    -close
> data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3
>
> I find no files in /usr/local/ldm/data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS in the
> appropriate subdirectories.  It's a 'FILE' so it should create all the
> subsidiary directories, correct?
>
> bigbird.tamu.edu is live for testing now.  It's got ssh poked thru the
> firewall.  username and passwd are the same as you used Friday.
> mesodata.cs.tamu.edu is also 'live' for now.  bigbird feeds from
> mesodata, but that's likely to change when I move bigbird to the GigaPoP.
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
> --
> Gerry Creager -- address@hidden
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