Hello Joseph,
I am not exactly certain what you are asking the group, but I think you want to
know if there is some master list of WMO header codes and what their contents
generally are. Sadly, I don't know of such a listing, but here are some
resources that may help.
First, the general form of the WMO header and the AWIPS identifier (some call
AFOS ID) is
TTAAII CCCC DDHHMI BBB
XXXYYY
Where, TTAAII is supposed to be the six character (aside, there is still one
sad case where it is 5) code for the product, like SDUS91 you have in your
email. Then CCCC is to be the originating center code. Then DDHHMI is the UTC
day, hour, minute for the product. The BBB is an optional field that denotes
things like product corrections or sequence numbers for products that have
matching "TTAAII CCCC DDHHMI". The XXXYYY is not strictly a WMO header field,
but it is a very handy ID that is nicely translated by LDM into the product ID
part of the LDM product name "/pXXXYYY". But caveat, when this field is not
properly whitespace padded to six characters (for IDs of less than 6
letters/numbers), it will not appear as the /p field in the LDM product name.
There are lots more caveats with the above, but I suspect I am getting into the
weeds here and others on this list have already heard my whining about
inconsistencies with the implementation of those values in products before .
Anyway, if you have some idea on what those identifiers could or should be, you
can do a search on my "IDD Database", which contains metadata on the LDM IDD
products (not fully comprehensive, but should have all text products).
https://id3b.agron.iastate.edu/
If you think you know what the XXXYYY should be, you can use this tool to look
up what my archiving has for it:
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/
If you think you know what the CCCC center code is, you can see a quick per-UTC
day view of text products from that center.
https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/list.phtml
Another resource I often check is the GEMPAK distributed LDM pqact files, which
contain some metadata about the WMO headers and often gives a place to start:
https://github.com/Unidata/gempak/tree/master/ldm/etc
Oh dear, I rambled a bunch. Perhaps I have not come close to answering your
question? :)
daryl
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From: ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <ldm-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
on behalf of Joseph Spenner <joseph85750@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 1, 2019 2:42:11 PM
To: LDM Users
Subject: [ldm-users] product codes - master list?
Hello, I've tried finding this information but am having no luck. For example,
if I have this:
WMO 710 SDUS91 ZUNI 012001
or
SPUS70 KWBC 011132
SPECI
PACM 011129Z AUTO 09011G18KT 10SM BKN020 M11/M14 A2988 RMK AO2
FZRANO=
KAJO 011129Z AUTO 00000KT 3/4SM -RA BR CLR 06/06 A2998 RMK AO2 VIS
M1/4V4 RAB11 P0000 $=
KBAK 011130Z 00000KT 5SM -SN BR OVC023 M08/M11 A3023=
KCNO 011128Z AUTO 01003KT 5SM BR CLR 08/08 A2998 RMK AO2
T00830078=
KOTH 011129Z AUTO 15006KT 6SM -RA BR BKN026 OVC033 09/08 A2975 RMK
AO2 P0001=
Is there some table somewhere to search "SPUS70" or "SDUS91" and get a list
of what products exist there?
Thanks!
Regards,
Joseph Spenner
