Stoney's suggestion is about the best, overall. It's not that hard to
accomplish, either. There's some order and hierarchy, but generally, you
just need to know what stations are using which IDs, and grab the ones you
want.
gerry
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Waldenio Almeida <
waldenio.almeida@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is there a hierarchy for the metar reports, but it change from country to
> country and each message will have several reports anyway.
>
> The best solution may be just to decode the reports (eg. for gempak with
> "dcmetr" decoder) and recover the desired stations using an script for
> gempak´s "sflist".
> This will account for issues with duplicated/null/invalid reports and
> other "real-life" problems that already have been solved in the decoders.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldenio.
>
>
> Em 15/10/2013 13:05, Neil Smith escreveu:
>
> He's essentially asking if there is a way to save a short list of
> individual station metar reports to their own directory - as they come in
> from the IDD. I remember doing this as a post process with Peter Nelley's
> 'Weather' program, in conjunction with the ldm pqsurf queue.
>
> Is there a way to do this with the ldm, maybe with a decoder?
>
> -Neil
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>
>
> On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:43 AM, "Diaz, Jr., Arturo" <arturo.diaz@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Good morning,
>
> I was wondering if anybody had information as to how the METAR reports
> are distributed within the LDM. I have found the information about the WMO
> header required to request file this data as text files. However, it seems
> as if some stations are responsible to transmit reports from other stations
> as well because I cannot request METAR reports from specific stations. When
> requesting all reports from the United States and filing the files in
> folder based on the ICAO ID only 60 folders get created and those 60
> stations' reports contain reports for many stations.
>
> Does anyone know if there is hierarchy for reporting METAR reports?
>
> Any help or guidance will be much appreciated. Thank you very much in
> advance.
>
>
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