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METAR netcdf in McIDAS

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  • Subject: METAR netcdf in McIDAS
  • Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 10:20:56 +0000
Hello,

I am testing the netcdf metar decoder at my site.
So far, I am able to run:

/usr/local/ldm:>metar2nc -v etc/metar.cdl data/METAR < testdata.wmo

and I get:
/usr/local/ldm/data/METAR
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm   staff  16384 Aug  8 13:03 02081707_metar.nc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm   staff  41048 Aug  8 13:03 02081708_metar.nc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm   staff  35199 Aug  8 08:58 metarLog.10636.log
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm   staff    754 Aug  8 08:58 metar.lst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 ldm   staff      0 Aug  8 10:12 rawmetars.11347.nc 

We do not run XCD.
I have spent some time trying to find the missing link. 
Which is how to make these metar.nc files available to
the McIDAS ADDE server. 
Which DSSERVE command do I have to issue?

With:
DSSERVE ADD GTS/METAR NCDF TYPE=POINT 
DIRFILE='/usr/local/ldm/data/METAR/*_metar.nc'
INFO=NCDF_PNT.CFG

I get:
PTLIST
GTS/METAR.1                                                              
PTLIST: Unable to read parameter labels from server
 
PTLIST GTS/METAR FORM=FILE 1
2                                                  
Pos    Description                  Sche  NRows NCols Proj# Created   
--- ------------------------------- ----  ----- ----- ----- -------   
 1 ..m/data/METAR/02081707_metar.nc META  ***** *****     0 1900000   
 2 ..m/data/METAR/02081708_metar.nc META  ***** *****     0 1900000 

NCDF_PNT.CFG is an exact copy of netcdfpoint.cfg distributed
whith mcidas2002

Txs.
Pepo
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>From address@hidden Thu Aug  8 15:05:19 2002
>To: address@hidden
>CC: Unidata Support <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: METAR netcdf in McIDAS

Pepo - 

Try putting an explicit path in the INFO= keyword in your DSSERVE
command.  I tried INFO=NCDF_PNT.CFG and got the same error that you are
seeing, but when I tried INFO=/home/beckys/NCDF_PNT.CFG, everything
seemed to work fine.

- Becky