ldmd.conf

• How to request RADAR data via the LDM.

ldmd.conf example entry:

########################################
# Request Entries
########################################
#
# LDM servers request data from Data Sources
#
#       (request) (feedset) (pattern) (hostname pattern)

	request	NEXRAD2|NNEXRAD|FNEXRAD	".*"	idd.unidata.ucar.edu
	[the above is a sample host pattern, yours may differ]
    

More information regarding the NEXRAD2 (Level II), NNEXRAD (Level III-NIDS), FNEXRAD (mosaics derived from Level III data) feeds and other feedtypes

pqact.conf

• How to "act" on the data once it is on disk in the LDM queue.
• Reminder: ALL spaces in the pqact.conf file need to be (tabs)!

pqact.conf example entries:

Level II example

NEXRAD2   ^L2-BZIP2/(....)/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-1][0-9][0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9][0-5][0-9])([0-9][0-9])
        FILE    data/gempak/nexrad/craft/\1/.\1_\2_\3
    

Level III example

NEXRAD  ^SDUS[2357]. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-6][0-9]).*/p(...)(...)
        FILE    -overwrite      -close  data/gempak/nexrad/NIDS/\5/\4/\4_(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1_\2\3
    

Level III mosaic example

FNEXRAD ^rad/NEXRCOMP/(...)/(...)_(........)_(....)
        FILE    -close  data/gempak/images/sat/NEXRCOMP/\1/\2/\2_\3_\4