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>From: Gilbert Sebenste <address@hidden> >Organization: NIU >Keywords: 200101101820.f0AIK8o23587 McIDAS ADD web Gilbert, re: GINI images from adde.ucar.edu >Adde.ucar.edu. I am getting images from 23:45Z, and that's it. This gives >me the old images: > >IMGDISP RTGINI/GE1KVIS STA=MMO 1 OK, I see the problem. A link is not getting updated to point to the current day's directory. I fixed this manually just now, and I will get together with Chiz about having the link updated at the change of the day. re: setting up NIDS access on weather.admin >I'll look into this. I amnot saving much due to disk considerations. OK. re: KBOU is not a NEXRAD station ID >Oops, sorry. KDEN? Nope. The closest NEXRAD to us is FTG. re: Now, we need to setup NEXRAD ADDE serving on your machine. >OK. How do we do that? All of the data is in /home/data/wsr88d; all >BREF1s, plus all products from 6 local sites. Here is the quick and dirty of how to do this. All steps are done as the user 'mcidas'. cd ~mcidas/data cp DSSERVE.BAT DSNEXRAD.BAT <edit DSNEXRAD.BAT and remove ALL lines except those that define the NOAAPORT NEXRAD products. i.e., leave the lines: REM REM NOAAPORT NEXRAD Level III products REM DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 1 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 2 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N2R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 3 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N3R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 4 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0V NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Radial Velocity Tilt 1 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1V NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Radial Velocity Tilt 2 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NCR NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Composite Reflectivity DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0S NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Storm-Rel Mean Vel Tilt 1 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1S NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Storm-Rel Mean Vel Tilt 2 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N2S NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Storm-Rel Mean Vel Tilt 3 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NVL NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Vertical Liquid H2O DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NTP NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "Storm Total Rainfall DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1P NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "1-hour Surface Rainfall DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0Z NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG "248 nm Base Reflectifity DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NET NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NNEXRAD.CFG " Echo Tops <while still editing the file, change NNEXRAD.CFG to NIUNEXR.CFG; you will end up with: REM REM NOAAPORT NEXRAD Level III products REM DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 1 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 2 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N2R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 3 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N3R NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Base Reflectivity Tilt 4 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0V NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Radial Velocity Tilt 1 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1V NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Radial Velocity Tilt 2 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NCR NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Composite Reflectivity DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0S NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Storm-Rel Mean Vel Tilt 1 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1S NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Storm-Rel Mean Vel Tilt 2 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N2S NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Storm-Rel Mean Vel Tilt 3 DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NVL NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Vertical Liquid H2O DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NTP NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "Storm Total Rainfall DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N1P NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "1-hour Surface Rainfall DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/N0Z NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG "248 nm Base Reflectifity DSSERVE ADD RTNEXRAD/NET NEXR 1 9999 TYPE=IMAGE INFO=NIUNEXR.CFG " Echo Tops cd ~mcidas/workdata cp NNEXRAD.CFG NIUNEXR.CFG <edit NIUNEXR.CFG and change DIRFILE= to /home/data/wsr88d/ change the file MASK to match what you are calling the various products. setup your ADDE server routing table: batch.k DSNEXRAD.BAT That should be it unless there are typos. BUT WAIT! Before you do the above, I STRONGLY recommend that you adopt a hierarchical filing scheme for your NIDS data that has the station ID as a directory node. I took the liberty of logging onto weather and saw that the way you are storing the files is horribly inefficient. A simple 'ls /home/data/wsr88d' took over a couple of minutes before returning back a LONG lisging. What I suggest is a structure that looks like: /N0R/*.bref1 /N1R/*.bref2 /home/data/wsr88d/FTG/N2R/*.bref3 /N3R/*.bref4 /NCR/*.cref /NVL/*.vil etc. The idea is for the directory structure to look like: /home/data/wsr88d/\ID/\TYPE/ where \ID represents NEXRAD station IDs and \TYPE represents NEXRAD product types. After doing this, the DIRFILE entry in NIUNEXR.CFG would be: DIRFILE=/home/data/wsr88d/\ID/\TYPE/ A scheme like this will _greatly_ speed up ADDE access to the massive amounts of data rolling in from NEXRAD sites. It will also help you manage your disk space more efficiently. Tom