[McIDAS #EUT-864314]: mcidas 2008 build problems

Hi Bill,

re:
> This will be brief.  I've been working from home over the Christmas break
> and our mail client gets blown off after a certain connect time accrues.
> I had a very long message composed about the GRDDISP problems, and I got
> blown off and the idiotic system didn't save the draft.  Your benefit.

Actually, it is possible that the problems you were attempting to report
on are related to my inquiry about what GRDDISP invocations you are running
to access the RTGRIDS/GFS-ALL dataset.

> Anyway to cut to the chase, below are the lines from two batch files that
> reference wind speeds.  Please note that these files are, taken together,
> initiated something like 29 or 30 times per day.  Why 9 requests should hang
> is beyond me, of course.

Well, it is beyond us as well!  It seems that the hangs all occur in the
morning between 10:35 and 14:45 UTC.

> from file ALL_1.BAT
> 
> REM Surface wind speeds
> SF 1
> PANEL 2 2
> EG B PAN=1 4
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=6 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=1 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=12 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=2 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=18 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=3 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=24 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=4 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> FRMLABEL "Wind Speed
> FRMSAVE 1 etawin1.gif
> REM
> 
> from file ALL_2.BAT
> 
> 
> EM Surface Wind Speed
> SF 1
> PANEL 2 2
> EG B PAN=1 4
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=30 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=1 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=36 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=2 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=42 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=3 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> GRDDISP RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL DAY=#Y TIME=#?TIME FHOUR=48 LEV=SFC DERIVE=SPD PAN=4 
> COLOR=3 LAT=20 55 LON=75 140  MCOL=8 SLAT=20 55 SLON=110   UNIT=MPH CIN=4 
> TDAY=CAL PRO=CONF
> FRMLABEL "Wind Speed
> FRMSAVE 1 etawin2.gif
> REM

Thanks.  These will give me some things I can run routinely while monitoring the
server side.  Hopefully, it will lead to some clarity as to why certain plot 
attempts
hang.

> (Without going back through all the crap I typed an hour ago that got blown 
> into
> the ether, I now move to the main mcidas machine (as referenced by address 
> below)
> to edit out the offending lines.)

Actually, you should be able to leave the lines in if you change the dataset 
from
RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL to RTGRIDS/GFS -- I believe that this is what you were using
previously.  I ran some tests yesterday where I plotted wind barbs (PARM=WINDB)
from both the RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL and RTGRIDS/GFS datasets. The results were bad 
plots
for data from RTGRIBS/GFS-ALL and good ones from RTGRIDS/GFS.

NB: RTGRIDS is hosted on the same machine as RTGRIBS, adde.ucar.edu:

DATALOC ADD RTGRIDS adde.ucar.edu

> Truly not a problem.

OK, that is good to hear.  We will be heading off to the AMS Annual meeting in
Phoenix on Sunday.  Between now and then, I have several things that must get
finished (like my AMS paper which is due tomorrow) :-(

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket ID: EUT-864314
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