Re: 20050622: dcacars freebsd binary

[Neil Smith <neils@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Working like a champ!
Many thanks, Steve.
-Neil
On Jun 22, 2005, at 11:19 AM, General Support wrote:

> Neil,
>
> I've attached the new dcacars binary for freebsd. It will recognize the
> TAMDAR RH variables of sensor[12]RelativeHumidity
> as a replacement for the previous CDL variable of "rh_probe".
>
> If you can't receive attachments like this, I'll post the single file  
> on
> the web. I'm assuming you wouldn't prefer an updated 5.8.2a tarfile  
> since
> your still running 5.6?
>
> Let me know if you have any trouble, etc.
>
> Steve Chiswell
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> > Subject: dcacars decode problems
> > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:55:41 -0500
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> > 1st time for an ACARS ingest/decode and I'm not getting
> > anything decoded.
> >
> > OS: FreeBSD 4.7
> > LDM: 6.0.14
> > GEMPAK: 5.6J
> >
> > ldmd.conf:
> > request PCWS            "^FSL\.CompressedNetCDF\.MADIS\.(acars)"
> > bigbird
> >
> > pqact.conf:
> > PCWS    ^FSL\.CompressedNetCDF\.MADIS\.acars\.
> >          PIPE    -close  /unidata/nawips/bin/freebsd/dcgunzip
> > /unidata/nawips/bin/freebsd/dcacars -
> > v
> >          -e GEMTBL=/unidata/nawips/gempak/tables
> >          -l /unidata/ldm/logs/dcacars.log
> >          data/gempak/acars/YYYYMMDDHHNN_acars.gem
> >
> >
> > typical dcacars.log entry:
> > Jun 21 22:42:17 dcacars[79350]: Starting up
> > Jun 21 22:42:18 dcacars[79350]: MADIS ACARS data
> > Jun 21 22:42:18 dcacars[79350]: No pressure variable, will calculate
> > Jun 21 22:42:18 dcacars[79350]: correctedWVMR not present
> > Jun 21 22:42:18 dcacars[79350]: could not get variable information
> > Jun 21 22:42:18 dcacars[79350]: could not decode data 0
> > Jun 21 22:42:18 dcacars[79350]: Exiting
> >
> > ldmd.log entry;
> > Jun 21 17:42:17 coriolis /unidata/nawips/bin/freebsd/dcgunzip [79345]:
> > /unidata/nawips/bin/freebsd/dcacars -v -e
> > GEMTBL=/unidata/nawips/gempak/tables -l /unidata/ldm/logs/dcacars.log
> > data/gempak/acars/YYYYMMDDHHNN_acars.gem
> >
> > I am having success in getting gunzip'd netcdf files with pqact.conf:
> > PCWS    ^FSL\.CompressedNetCDF\.MADIS\.acars\.(.*)
> >          PIPE    -close  /unidata/ldm/decoders/store_MADIS.sh
> > data/gempak/acars.nc/ \1
> >
> > where the store_MADIS.sh looks like:
> > #!/bin/sh
> > STAMP=`date "+%S"`
> > gzip -d > $1/$$.$2; F=`echo $2 | cut -c1-13`; mv $1/$$.$2
> > $1/$F.$STAMP.nc
> >
> > ncdump of the output file doesn't fail so I presume it's a valid  
> > netcdf
> > file. Can
> > provide it as a sample if you wish. Running dcacars on command line on
> > this file
> > gives the same errors.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Neil
> > ------------------
> > Neil R. Smith                           neils@xxxxxxxx
> > Comp.Sys.Mngr.                  (979)845-6272
> > Dept. Atmospheric Sciences/Texas A&M University
> <dcacars>
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Neil R. Smith                           neils@xxxxxxxx
Comp.Sys.Mngr.                  (979)845-6272
Dept. Atmospheric Sciences/Texas A&M University