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  • Subject: [McIDAS #STG-808468]: Conversion of mcidas area to shapefile format
  • Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:30:13 -0700
Hi Randy,

re:
> I just sent and email to support-idd.

I see it in the queue.

> Thanks for your help.

No worries.

> Now I have to figure out how to tell GRDLIST to list the SREF data. It
> does not look like the individual members of the ensemble are there
> because when I issue the ENS=0 +1 +2 etc in the GRDLIST command it gives
> me nothing. Since that it is an option in GRDLIST I would assume that
> some data coming across noaaport has ensemble members. Would you know?

I thought that the NGRID had SREF ensembles, but I am not 100% sure.

A quick test shows that the only ensembles being processed by XCD (whether
the ensembles are in the feeds from NOAAPort or not) are:

GRDLIST RTGRIB2/ALL ENS=-1 +1 FORM=ALL
GRDLIST: No grid found matching search conditions
GRDLIST - done
GRDLIST failed, RC=2

GRDLIST RTGRIBS/ALL ENS=+1 NUM=10
Dataset position 1      Directory Title= /GFS.80.2009026.0.6.40.grib
PAR  LEVEL      DAY          TIME     SRC  FHR  FDAY         FTIME    GRID  PRO
---- ---------- ------------ -------- ---- ---- ------------ -------- ----- ----
Z      500 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
Z      850 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
T      250 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
T      850 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
U      850 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
U      500 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
U      250 MB   26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
P    MSL        26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
V       10 M    26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
PCP  SFC        26 JAN 09026 00:00:00  GFS    6 26 JAN 09026 06:00:00   N/A MERC
Number of grids listed = 10
GRDLIST - done

So, it looks like the only ensembles are from GFS, and they are in the HDS 
NOAAPort
feed, not in the NGRID feed.  I was incorrect in thinking that SREF ensembles
are being delivered in the NOAAPort NGRID feed, OR the SREF ensembles are not
being processed by XCD.  I think that the latter case is not likely since I 
think we
would see messages in the XCD_START.LOG file for grids that can not be 
processed.

Perhaps the ensembles you are looking for are in CONDUIT?
 
> How about SSEC? Do you guys know.

I'm interested in this info as well...

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: STG-808468
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed