Re: [gembud] DCLSFC synoptic decoder

• To: James Murakami <tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [gembud] DCLSFC synoptic decoder
• From: Kwan-Yin.Kong@xxxxxxxx
• Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:31:06 -0500

Hi James,

Thank you for your reply.  May I ask if your plot contains only 
synoptic reports or it is a mixture of METAR and SYNOP?  I have no 
problems with decoding METARs in SE Asia, but all SYNOP in Philippines 
and Indo-China are missing, and oddly, all SYNOP in China are decoded 
properly.  There are much more SYNOPs than METARs in SE Asia.  May I 
ask if you can zoom in to around the Philippines to confirm if I am 
not seeing just the METAR reports?  

Kwan

----- Original Message -----
From: James Murakami <tenki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011 5:08 pm
Subject: Re: [gembud] DCLSFC synoptic decoder

> Hi Kwan,
> 
> At least using the IDD feed from Unidata, we seem to be decoding 
> synoptic data without a problem. There do seem to be some missing 
> data 
> in some countries, but I'm not sure if decoder related. I've 
> attached a 
> plot from 18Z today.
> 
> Our pqact entry is as follows(tabs not included):
> 
> # Synoptic land reports
> #
> WMO     (^S[IM]V[IGNS])|(^SNV[INS])|(^S[IMN](W[KZ]|[^VW]))
>         PIPE    decoders/dclsfc -v 2 -s lsystns.upc
>         -d data/gempak/logs/dclsfc.log
>         -e GEMTBL=/home/gempak/GEMPAK6.2.0/gempak/tables
>         /gem7/data/syn/YYYYMMDD_syn.gem
> 
> 
> 
> James
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> James Murakami
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> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
> University of California, Los Angeles
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> Los Angeles, CA  90095-1565
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> On 02/24/2011 01:24 PM, Kwan-Yin.Kong@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Has anyone tried decoding synoptic data over SE Asia (the 
> Philippines,> for example) using DCLSFC?  It apparently fails to 
> do so for some
> > reasons.  The actual synoptic data are present, and GEMPAK station
> > table contains the required station info.  But for unknown reasons,
> > DCLSFC fails to decode the data.  DCLSFC does not appear to display
> > error messages, making it hard to debug.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Kwan
> >
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