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20010807: Missing synoptic stations/buoy decoding stops

James,

regarding your dcmsfc question first, you should need to add your
-e GEMTBL=/unidata/ldm/5.6/gempak/tables
line to the invocation to find the packing table msfc.pack which
is asking for in the logs.

If GEMTBL is set in the environment that ldm is running under, you will
find the packing file, otherwise, you need to haveit set in the
pqact.conf line. I suggest always using the GEMTBL definition in the
pqact.conf line since it avoids somone restarting the LDM without sourcing the
Gemenviron file first. It looks like when you started, the sb output file 
already existed,
so you could write to the file. But, once he new day began and the new file had 
to be created, you
couldn't find the packing file, so you see no data decoded.

I'll have to look at the dclsfc decoder to see what the decoding 
station/regions are
that I see.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport




>From: James Murakami <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200108072052.f77KqT124298

>Hello.
>
>I'm having two problems that I didn't encounter when I was
>running GEMPAK5.4 (using version 5.6c1 now). The first
>relates to missing synoptic world observations. That is,
>certain regions of the world aren't getting decoded (all
>of Japan as an example but there are other regions).
>
>My pqact for synoptic observations is--
>
># Synoptic observations
>#WMO   (^S[IM]V[IGNS])|(^SNV[INS])|(^S[IMN](W[KZ]|[^VW]))
>DDS|IDS        ^S([IMN][^VW].*|XUS2[0-3]) .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])
>       PIPE    /unidata/ldm/5.6/bin/sol/dclsfc
>       -d /data/logs/dclsfc.log
>       -e GEMTBL=/unidata/ldm/5.6/gempak/tables
>       /gempak/data/synoptic/YYYYMMDD_syn.gem
>
>The commented out line is the same as in the file "decoder.tbl"
>found on the install GEMPAK webpage. I used the other line to
>see if it would make a difference (worked when running version
>5.4), but it didn't matter. I wanted to check the station table,
>but I'm not sure which it is (sfworld.tbl?, syworld.tbl?).
>
>Checking the dclsfc.log, here's the last three dozen remarks--
>
>[11007] 010807/0940 [DC -9]
>[11007] 010807/0940 [DC 5]
>[11007] 010807/0940 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 6
>[11007] 010807/0940 [DC 6]
>[11243] 010807/0941 [DC 3]
>[11243] 010807/0942 [DC -9]
>[11243] 010807/0942 [DC 5]
>[11243] 010807/0942 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 1
>[11243] 010807/0942 [DC 6]
>[11591] 010807/0943 [DC 3]
>[11591] 010807/0943 [DC -9]
>[11591] 010807/0943 [DC 5]
>[11591] 010807/0943 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 3
>[11591] 010807/0943 [DC 6]
>[11606] 010807/0944 [DC 3]
>[11606] 010807/0944 [DC -9]
>[11606] 010807/0944 [DC 5]
>[11606] 010807/0944 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 1
>[11606] 010807/0944 [DC 6]
>[11611] 010807/0944 [DC 3]
>[11611] 010807/0944 [DC -9]
>[11611] 010807/0944 [DC 5]
>[11611] 010807/0944 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 5
>[11611] 010807/0944 [DC 6]
>[12079] 010807/0946 [DC 3]
>[12079] 010807/1039 [DC -9]
>[12079] 010807/1039 [DC 5]
>[12079] 010807/1039 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 90
>[12079] 010807/1039 [DC 6]
[19084] 010807/1041 [DC 3]  Starting up.
>[19084] 010807/1050 [DC 2]  Terminate Signal
>[19084] 010807/1050 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
>[19084] 010807/1050 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 19
>[19084] 010807/1050 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
>[20235] 010807/1051 [DC 3]  Starting up.
>
>So, where should I be checking to resolve this matter?
>
>Now, part 2...For some unexplained reason, dcmsfc seems to shut down
>periodically. It apparently won't decode observations for more than
>a few days. I'm not sure if our machine is overtaxed or not, but I
>haven't seen a similar problem with the other decoders (dcgrib2 can
>take about a quarter of the cpu). Each time I have to do a "ldmadmin
>stop" followed by a "ldmadmin start".
>
>My pqact conf is--
>
># Ships, buoys, CMAN reports
>WMO    (^S[IMN]V[^GINS])|(^S[IMN]W[^KZ])|(^S(HV|HXX|S[^X]))|(^SX(VD|V.50|US2[0
> -3]))|(^Y[HO]XX84)
>       PIPE    /unidata/ldm/5.6/bin/sol/dcmsfc -b 9 -a 10000
>       -d /data/logs/dcmsfc.log
>       /gempak/data/ship/YYYYMMDDHH_sb.gem
>
>A look at the dcmsfc.log showed remarks even after program stopped
>decoding. A piece of the log follows--
>
>[21353] 010807/0302 [DC -9]  End of input data file.
>[21353] 010807/0302 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
>[21353] 010807/0302 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 33
>[21353] 010807/0302 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
>[23060] 010807/0303 [DC 3]  Starting up.
>[23060] 010807/0304 [DC -9]  End of input data file.
>[23060] 010807/0304 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
>[23060] 010807/0304 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 4
>[23060] 010807/0304 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
>[23063] 010807/0304 [DC 3]  Starting up.
>[23063] 010807/0550 [DC 2]  Terminate Signal
>[23063] 010807/0550 [DC 5]  Normal termination.
>[23063] 010807/0550 [DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 649
>[23063] 010807/0550 [DC 6]  Shutting down.
>[12292] 010807/0550 [DC 3]
>[12292] 010807/0550 [IN -11] msfc.pack
>[12292] 010807/0550 [FL -1]
>[12292] 010807/0550 [DC 5]
>[12292] 010807/0550 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>[12292] 010807/0550 [DC 6]
>[12293] 010807/0550 [DC 3]
>[12293] 010807/0550 [IN -11] msfc.pack
>[12293] 010807/0550 [FL -1]
>[12293] 010807/0550 [DC 5]
>[12293] 010807/0550 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>[12293] 010807/0550 [DC 6]
>[12294] 010807/0550 [DC 3]
>[12294] 010807/0550 [IN -11] msfc.pack
>[12294] 010807/0550 [FL -1]
>[12294] 010807/0550 [DC 5]
>[12294] 010807/0550 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>[12294] 010807/0550 [DC 6]
>[12295] 010807/0550 [DC 3]
>[12295] 010807/0550 [IN -11] msfc.pack
>[12295] 010807/0550 [FL -1]
>[12295] 010807/0550 [DC 5]
>[12295] 010807/0550 [DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0
>
>This looks to show what's going wrong, but I don't how to
>interpret it. 
>
>Your guidance on these two matters is greatly appreciated.
>
>James
>
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>James Murakami
>Staff Meteorologist/Student Affairs
>Department of Atmospheric Sciences
>University of California, Los Angeles
>405 Hilgard Ave.
>Los Angeles, CA  90095-1565
>
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