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20000320: dcprof and NOAAPORT

Gregg,

The dcncprof decoder is used for the NetCDF profiler data.
You can obtain the FSL2 IDD feed from your upstream feed
site as long as they have that enabled in their ldmd.conf allow.
You only have to contact FSL to get the Acars data- not the profiler.

The actions in the GEMPAK pqact.conf decoders examples stores the hourly
summaries in a single daily file. The 6 minute data are stored in 2
files per day (a 0Z and 12Z file as shown in the pattern/actions):
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/gempak/tutorial/pqact/decoders.tbl

The limit in the UPC distribution of GEMPAK is 200 times in a file-
which is why we can't stick all 288 6 minute obs in 1 file.
I am increasing this limit to 300 in the next Gempak release.

I set the maximum number of grids allowed in a file to 10,000, but
thats not the type of data we are dealing with here.

Steve

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Gregory Grosshans wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Does the same dcprof work with the FSL2 feed of profiler data?  Does it store 
> the
> 6 minute data in one daily sounding file and did you end up increasing the 
> number
> of possible grids to be greater than 4000?
> 
> Can you point me to a contact at FSL for the FSL2 profiler feed?
> 
> Thanks,
> Gregg
> 
> Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> > Gregg,
> >
> > I haven't looked at dcprof since the IDD started carrying the
> > FSL2 feed profiler data which contains both the 6 minute and hourly
> > summaries. The BUFR doesn't have 6 minute observations, so I would
> > presume that the FSL2 stream would be preferred.
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, Gregory Grosshans wrote:
> >
> > > Steve,
> > >
> > > Does Unidata have a version of dcprof that works with the BUFR profiler 
> > > data
> > > received from NOAAPORT?  I presently have the dcprof that works with the 
> > > AFOS
> > > profiler stream.  Doing an octal dump of the profiler data shows a 
> > > difference
> > > between AFOS and NOAAPORT.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Gregg
> > >
>