>From: Dave Dempsey <address@hidden>
>Organization: San Francisco State University
>Keywords: 200003280145.SAA13639 ldm-mcidas lwtoa3 header
Dave,
>Respected Unidaters,
Is this supposed to go to some other Unidata ;-)
>I'd like to include in my pqact.conf file an EXEC command that triggers a
>script upon receipt of MCIDAS AREA files containing GOES-west visible images
>at one particular hour (UTC) each day. To do that I've got to know where/how
>the date/time info is represented in MCIDAS AREA file headers. Where can I
>find that info?
Currently (this will change when we move to a different method for sending
products in the UW stream), the header looks like:
LWTOA3 nnnn CAL=YES DIALPROD=pp yyddd hhmmss
^ ^ ^ ^____ nominal time for the image
| | |__________ year and Julian day
| |_______________ McIDAS routing table product code
|___________________________________ default AREA file number
The CAL= field is typically there, but it is not guaranteed. The regular
expression I would use in pqact.conf to do the job you have in mind would
key off of the third positional parameter for the DIALPROD= keyword.
>Regards,
Tom
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