[McIDAS #KVW-130097]: FW: EXTERNAL: Re: TEMP SHIP data

Hi Bryan,

re:
> It occurs to me that you folks might be able to offer an opinion on this.
> Has any Unidata affiliate needed a decoder for TEMP SHIP Raob data before?

Not that I know of.

Question:

- are the ship raobs different from regular ones?

  If not, you should be able to use the regular XCD decoder/data monitor
  to decode the obs

By the way, I am on travel at the moment, so my ability to respond to email is
limited (and will be non-existent for at least a day starting in about an
hour).

> Thanks,
> 
> Bryan
> 
> From: McIDAS Help Desk [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:37 PM
> To: Biggerstaff, Brice A9
> Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: TEMP SHIP data
> 
> Hi Brice,
> 
> I found our reply (from Jay) back on 14 Feb 2012. Here's what it said:
> 
> I talked with our XCD programmer and he had some comments and questions
> about this data:
> 
> 
> If raobs are not in the list from NWS, then it won't process them (or
> know to look for them).  Probably the best thing to do is for someone
> to give me a raw TEMP SHIP RAOB report. Then, I can pass it through -XCD
> and see what happens.  Another issue is if this data is coming across on
> NOAAPORT or not. We've had quite a few issues lately with reports that
> other users are looking for, but there's nothing we can do if it's not
> coming across NOAAPORT.
> 
> Let us know what other information you can give us and we'll see
> what we can come up with.  (Also, does TEMP stand for 'temporary'
> or 'temperature'?  Just curious.)  Thanks for today's update and the
> sample data. I will pass this along to the McXCD programmer and ask him
> to take a look and comment on when/if this can be done. However, please
> note that we're currently very busy working on trying to get the McX and
> McXCD 2012.1 releases out soon. So it may be a couple/few days before the
> -XCD programmer can take a good look and give feedback. Hope that's ok.
> 
> Thanks,
> Barry
> 
> 
> On 6/7/2012 2:09 PM Biggerstaff, Brice A9 said the following:
> A while back I sent this in and got a response back requesting some test 
> data.  I managed to misplace the reply, so I just use this as a 
> re-introduction.  I am enclosing samples of test data that were captured off 
> the NOAAPort stream, so ya'll up there should have access to additional test 
> data as you need it.  Our local forecaster, Tim Garner, tells me that more 
> ships have been reporting recently.
> 
> Please take a look at this and see if there is an easy fix to allow the data 
> to be decoded and stored.  The format should be like standard RAOB data with 
> the exception of the first couple of lines which include the Lat/Lon 
> information and ship ID.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brice
> 
> Brice Biggerstaff
> MIDDS Software Support
> 281-853-3011 (w)
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> 
> 
> From: Biggerstaff, Brice A9
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:22 AM
> To: 'MUG Help Desk'
> Subject: TEMP SHIP data
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Got an inquiry from one of our forecasters wanting to know if McIDAS-XCD 
> (2010 in our case) should be decoding  and storing TEMP SHIP RAOB data.  It 
> appears that there might be some issues with mismatches between station ID's 
> and how ships report, but that the format of the data would be compatible.  
> Can you let me know if there are configuration changes that could be made to 
> pick up this data or are we going to have to modify the base code (or is that 
> something you guy would do ;-) ).  Our forecaster is looking into this data 
> to support new vehicles which may be doing splashdown recoveries.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brice
> 
> Brice Biggerstaff
> MIDDS Software Support
> 281-853-3011 (w)
> 713-764-2601 (p)
> address@hidden<mailto:address@hidden>  (alpha pager for text and email)
> 
> Res Confacti Erimus
> "We Get Things Done!"
> 
> 
> 
> 

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket ID: KVW-130097
Department: Support McIDAS
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