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20000113: LDM, NWX and climate reports

Clint,

First...an easy way to get all the CLI reports (CSUS02, CSUS43 etc.
with all these WMO header changes is to use the PIL on the LDM line, such as:
# Climate Reports
WMO     ^C[SD]US.. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/pCLI
        FILE    data/gempak/nwx/pubprod/climo/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2.clim
WMO     ^C[SD]US.. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9]).*/pCLM
        FILE    data/gempak/nwx/pubprod/climo/(\1:yyyy)(\1:mm)\1\2.mclim

Now, to separate out the CLILNK, CLIOMA, CLIOFK as distinct bulletins
for different locations rather than using the distributing office KOAX,
what you really want is to look in the bulletin for the PIL rather than
use the WMO header. In this case, the master.tbl entry for CLIM should
be "R" rather than "B"- and the climo.bull table should be set up for
the PILS rather than stations, eg:
CLILNK 99999    LINCOLN_MUNICIP                  NE US  4085  -9675   362
CLIOMA 99999    OMAHA/EPPLEY_FI                  NE US  4130  -9590   299

I'll attatch a reconfigured table to this message.
Lastly, getting stripped bulletins rather than the ctrl characters-
and then having your pqact.conf behave differently saounds like somewhere 
in the tabel was an entry using -strip, and/or when you restarted the LDM
you read in your pqact.conf with your new changes recognized.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: Clint Rowe <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200001131812.LAA03282

>Chiz, 
>
>Recently, NWS has changed the way climate reports are issued.  All climate
>reports now have headers specifying the forecast office from which they
>originate, rather than the station they represent.
>
>For example, Lincoln climate reports used to look like this
>^A^M^M
>199 ^M^M
>CSUS2 KLNK 030632^M^M
>CLILNK^M^M
>^M^M
>CLIMATIC SUMMARY FOR LINCOLN NE^M^M
>NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE^M^M
>1226 AM CST WED NOV 3 1999^M^M
>^M^M
>...TEMPERATURE...^M^M
>HIGH YESTERDAY...   57 ^M^M
> LOW YESTERDAY...   29 ^M^M
>MEAN TEMP........   43^M^M
>NORMAL TEMP......   46^M^M
>DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL...   -3   ANNUAL...   333^M^M
>   < deletia >
>
>Now, they look like this
>
>CDUS43 KOAX 130641
>CLILNK
>
>CLIMATIC SUMMARY FOR LINCOLN NE
>NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OMAHA/VALLEY NE
>1235 AM CST THU JAN 13 2000
>
>...TEMPERATURE...
>HIGH YESTERDAY...   46
> LOW YESTERDAY...   21
>MEAN TEMP........   34
>NORMAL TEMP......   21
>DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL...   13   ANNUAL...   124
>   < deletia >
>
>The first thing I don't understand is how the following pqact entry works,
>since KLNK doesn't actually appear in the header!  
>
># Lincoln Climate Report for Forecast Contest
>DDPLUS  ^CDUS43 KLNK ([0-3][0-9])
>        FILE    -close /data/contest/clim_lnk.(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1
>        
>Second, why aren't the control characters filed like they used to be?  The 
>following entries still result in files with control characters and the only
>difference I see is the close action on the preceeding entry.
>
># Climate Reports
>WMO     ^CSUS02 .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        FILE    /data/gempak/nwx/pubprod/climo/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.clim
>WMO     ^CDUS4. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        FILE    /data/gempak/nwx/pubprod/climo/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.clim
>        
>The above are not pressing questions, because the pqact entries are doing 
>what I want them to do, even if I don't understand why.  The following is the
>part I really need an answer to. (do you like how I buried this after a lot
>of other stuff?).
>
>My real question is how do I make NWX get the climate reports for cities other
>that WFOs?  For example Omaha/Valley (KOAX) issues climate reports for
>Omaha (CLIOMA), Lincoln (CLILNK) and Norfolk (CLIOFK).  If you change the
>entry for Omaha in $NWX_TABLES/climo.bull from
>
>CSUS2  KOMA     OMAHA/EPPLEY_FI                  NE US  4130  -9590   299
>
>to
>
>CDUS43 KOAX     OMAHA/EPPLEY_FI                  NE US  4130  -9590   299
>
>and click on Omaha in NWX, you might get Omaha's climate report, Lincoln's
>climate reort or Norfolk's climate report, depending on which was the last 
>to arrive.  If you click on Lincoln in NWX, you get no climate report, of
>course.  Is there any way to fix this so we can look at all the reports by
>selecting that city and only getting that city's report?
>
>Clint
>
>
>====================================================================
>Clinton M. Rowe
>Associate Professor 
>Meteorology/Climatology Program                  phone:(402)472-1946
>Department of Geosciences                          fax:(402)472-4917
>University of Nebraska-Lincoln                  address@hidden
>
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>Subject: Part 2: LDM, NWX and climate reports
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>Just to add to my confusion, I have the following to report ...
>
>I had to restart the ldm yesterday to change a downstream sites address and
>now the Lincoln climate data are not being filed the way I want.  Now, the
>ldm is working as logic says is should!  Remember I reported yesterday that
>
># Lincoln Climate Report for Forecast Contest
>DDPLUS  ^CDUS43 KLNK ([0-3][0-9])
>        FILE    -close /data/contest/clim_lnk.(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1
>
>was filing the reports only for KLNK in the desired files even though KLNK
>doesn't actually appear in the header!  As of the restart yesterday (I made 
>no change to pqact.conf, only to ldmd.conf), the Lincoln climate report has no
> t
>resulted in the desired action.  We did receive the report and it was filed
>according to the actions for NWX
>
># Climate Reports
>WMO     ^CSUS02 .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        FILE    /data/gempak/nwx/pubprod/climo/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.clim
>WMO     ^CDUS4. .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>        FILE    /data/gempak/nwx/pubprod/climo/(\1:yy)(\1:mm)\1\2.clim
>
>Now, however, I don't have an easy way to extract just the Lincoln report.
>Any suggestions?  We use these reports for verification data for our local
>forecast contest, which starts next week.
>
>Clint
>
>
>====================================================================
>Clinton M. Rowe
>Associate Professor 
>Meteorology/Climatology Program                  phone:(402)472-1946
>Department of Geosciences                          fax:(402)472-4917
>University of Nebraska-Lincoln                  address@hidden
>