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[McIDAS #CKP-458079]: Missing marine/buoy data?

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #CKP-458079]: Missing marine/buoy data?
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:23:00 -0600
Hi Kwan,

re:
> For a long time, I have suspected that not all of the marine or ship/buoy
> data are decoded into the RTPTSRC/SHIPBUOY in the ADDE files we normally
> get (such as from ADDE.UCAR.EDU).  I noticed this morning that some
> marine data were plotted near Puerto Rico at around 12Z near Hurricane
> Maria at the website
> 
> http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/floaters/15L/flash-rbtop-long.html
> 
> (see attached figure).  However, I was unable to plot those data at all.
> 
> Are all marine/buoy data supposed to be contained in RTPTSRC/SHIPBUOY?

Yes.

re:
> Are there other supplemental buoy data saved in another RTPTSRC files?

No.

re:
> Are you able to plot the wind data just east of San Juan at 12Z this
> morning like what is shown in the figure?

I haven't tried.

Please compare what you can plot when pointing at adde.ucar.edu versus
pointing at lead.unidata.ucar.edu for RTPTSRC.  The reason for this is
that lead.unidata.ucar.edu is running a much newer version of McIDAS-X
and -XCD, so there may be bugs that have been fixed there.  The reason
that adde.ucar.edu is running an older version of McIDAS is that McIDAS=X/-XCD
is no longer supported under Solaris, and adde.ucar.edu and atm.ucar.edu
are both running Solaris 10.  Both machines will be converted to running
CentOS 6.x in the coming weeks/months, and at that point, they will be
able to run current versions of McIDAS-X/-XCD.

re:
> Thank you again,

No worries.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: CKP-458079
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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