[McIDAS #CXJ-584047]: Plotting GLM data with McIDAS

Hi Greg,

First, did you download the pre-release Unidata McIDAS-X/-XCD distribution
(mcidasx2017.tar.gz) from our anonymous FTP server?  If yes, I will remove
it.

re:
> I'm having trouble getting any output out of the glmlist command.
> Here's several things I've tried:
> 
> [gstoss@typhoon]: glmlist.k
> PTLIST: Failed to generate file mask list
> /h/eol/gstoss/mcidas/data
> [gstoss@typhoon]: glmlist.k DAT=ALL
> ^C/h/eol/gstoss/mcidas/data
> [gstoss@typhoon]: glmlist.k DAT=ALL DAY=IMA
> glmlist.k: No Day/Time for image frame =  1
> /h/eol/gstoss/mcidas/data
> [gstoss@typhoon]: glmlist.k CO DAT=ALL
> ^C/h/eol/gstoss/mcidas/data
> [gstoss@typhoon]: glmlist.k CO DAT=ALL TYPE=GROUP
> ^C/h/eol/gstoss/mcidas/data
> [gstoss@typhoon]: glmlist.k CO DAT=ALL TYPE=GROUP TIME=0 1
> 
> All the Ctrl-Cs are me killing the process after several minutes with no
> response. Can you give me any advice on what I'm doing wrong?

I'll try, but I have to admit that I have little to no experience with
the GLM data.  Since I need to rectify this situation, I will try and
figure things out as we go along...

re:
> I've copied
> the GLM.CORE file to my personal ~/mcidas/data/GLM.USER and have changed
> the group and descriptors to point to what you set up.

Can I assume that you:

- replaced all occurrences of EAST with RTGOESR?

- replaced all occurrences of GLM-EVENT, GLM-GROUP and GLM-FLASH with
  GLMEVENT, GLMGROUP and GLMFLASH, respectively?

Results of my tests:

I copied GLM.CORE to $MCDATA/GLM.USER in my 'mcidas' environment, and pointed at
RTGOESR on atm.ucar.edu and then ran GLMLIST with good results:

DATALOC ADD RTGOESR atm.ucar.edu
GLMLIST DEV=TNN GLMLIST.OUT 

less $MCDATA/GLMLIST.OUT

       DAY      TIME  LAT[DEG]  LON[DEG]          IDN      ENGY      AREA      
FLSH
 --------- --------- --------- --------- ------------ --------- --------- 
---------
   2018205    185220   53.1113   86.4613    588365120        28       183     
11588
   2018205    185220   53.1336   86.4680    588365120        32       183     
11588
   2018205    185220   53.1231   86.4649    588365120        28       183     
11588
   2018205    185220   53.1377   86.4691    588365120        28       183     
11588
   2018205    185220   53.1928   86.4857    588365120         6        92     
11588
   2018205    185220   34.8846  111.1743    588365120         3        71     
11584
   2018205    185220   34.8821  111.1366    588365120        12       142     
11584
   2018205    185220   34.8847  111.1744    588365120         4        71     
11584
   2018205    185220   34.8846  111.1744    588365120         4        71     
11584
   2018205    185220   34.8846  111.1744    588365120         4        71     
11584
   2018205    185220   34.8821  111.1365    588365120        19       142     
11584
   2018205    185220   34.8847  111.1744    588365184         5        71     
11584
   2018205    185220   33.0372   81.2261    588365184        10       203     
11591
   2018205    185220   33.0324   81.2288    588365184        19       270     
11591
 ...
   2018205    185620   27.0822   90.3000    588406016        20       208     
16053
   2018205    185620   27.0869   90.2767    588406016         2        69     
16053
   2018205    185620   27.0874   90.2948    588406016         7       138     
16053
   2018205    185620   27.0875   90.3004    588406016         5       138     
16053
Number of matches found = 24110

I then tried to do the same as 'yoksas' while logged in on typhoon.eol.ucar.edu
and I got the same results when accessing RTGOESR from atm.ucar.edu, but nothing
when I tried accessing RTGOESR from typhoon.eol.ucar.edu.  This tells me that 
the
ADDE setup on typhoon is no longer valid for some reason.

I then looked at the ADDE dataset definitions in the 'mcidas' account on typhoon
(in the file ~mcidas/workdata/RESOLV.SRV) and was reminded that the GRB ABI and
GLM files used to be located in the /data/output/GRB-R directory.  I don't see
anything in this directory on typhoon now:

ls -alt /data/output/GRB-R

total 5120
drwxrwxr-x 3 mcidas 1001      24 Jun 11 19:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 2 mcidas 1001 5382144 Jun 11 19:47 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 8 mcidas 1001     106 Dec  1  2017 ..

So, the questions to you are:

- are you still ingesting GRB products on typhoon.eol.ucar.edu?

- if yes, where are they being written on disk?

If typhoon is still ingesting GRB products but they are being written
in a location other than /data/output/GRB-R, I will need to update
the ADDE dataset definitions to point at the correct directory.

Cheers,

Tom
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