Re: NOAA Profiler Data

• To: Philip Barbour <barboup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: NOAA Profiler Data
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 16:01:46 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Philip  Barbour wrote:

  Hello Robb,

I was hoping you could help me with something or at least point me in the right direction. I need to begin working with the real time Profiler data available to our University. The guy who manages the data had thought it came through in NetCDF format but our usual programs couldn't read the header. Could you let me know where to find information on the format?

Philip,

The profiler data from FSL is in netCDF format, the profiler data from the
HDS stream is in ebufr format. If you are using gempak, there are a set of
decoders already.  Look at the Gempak pages on the web. Here's the entries
used in the pqact.conf file.  The white spaces are tabs. Also, if you send
messages to support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx the questions get directed to the
handling individuals and you get faster results.

Robb...

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# FSL NetCDF Wind Profiler
FSL2    ^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(01hr)\.(.*)\..*
       PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcncprof -v
       -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
       -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
       data/gempak/profiler/YYMMDD_pro.gem
FSL2
^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(06min)\........(0[0-9]|1[01])..\..
*
       PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcncprof -v
       -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
       -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
       data/gempak/profiler/YYMMDD00_6min.gem
FSL2
^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.(06min)\........(1[2-9]|2[0-3])..\.
.*
       PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/dcncprof -v
       -l data/gempak/logs/dcncprof.log
       -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/NAWIPS-5.4/gempak5.4/tables
       data/gempak/profiler/YYMMDD12_6min.gem
FSL2    ^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.01hr\.(.*)\..*
       PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/proftomd -v
       -l /usr/local/ldm/logs/ldm-mcidas.log -d /var/data/mcidasd U2 WPRO
81
FSL2    ^FSL\.NetCDF\.NOAAnet\.windprofiler\.06min\.(.*)\..*
       PIPE    -close  /usr/local/ldm/decoders/proftomd -v

Thanks,

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   $   Phil Barbour                                   $
   $   Wind Research Cooperative                      $
   $   Oregon State University                        $
   $   Corvallis, OR.                                 $
   $   (541) 737-7022                                 $
   $   Barboup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx                          $
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx                   WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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