NOTICE: This version of the NSF Unidata web site (archive.unidata.ucar.edu) is no longer being updated.
Current content can be found at unidata.ucar.edu.

To learn about what's going on, see About the Archive Site.

[gembud] dcrdf dcgmos on tgftp.nws.noaa.gov files

Howdy All,
I am having problem decoding historical (and current) pfm/rdf and gfs mos bulletins that I am downloading off of tgftp (ftp:// tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/raw/fo/*[pfm,mav]*). I imagine I am just making a stupid mistake. For some reason, I keep getting the Invalid time error, which appears should only occur if the date string is less than 6 chars, day is outside of 0-31 range, or time is outside of 0-2359 range.
I am using dcrdf and dcgmos, with and without the -c option to set the date and I have added the header and trailer to the bulletin as described previously in the lists. 

echo 'AMML' | tr 'AMLC' '\001\015\012\003' > header
echo 'MMLC' | tr 'AMLC' '\001\015\012\003' > trailer
cat header pfmfile_from_tgftp trailer > junk
dcrdf -v 2 -c 080127/2359 -b 3 -d junk.log -m 100 junk.sfc < junk

[weather@wi00-00 pfm_ccf]$ cat junk.log
[19582] 080128/0427[DC 3]  Starting up. Version 5.10.2
[19582] 080128/0427[DC 2]  read 17174/102399 bytes strt 0 newstrt 17174
[19582] 080128/0427[DC -16]  Invalid time
[19582] 080128/0427[DCRDF 2] FOUS54 KBMX 272359 PFMBMX POINT FORECAST MATRICES NATIONAL 
[19582] 080128/0427[DC 2]  read 0/85226 bytes strt 17174 newstrt 17174
[19582] 080128/0427[DC -9]  End of input data file.
[19582] 080128/0427[DC 5]  Normal termination.
[19582] 080128/0427[DC 2]  Number of bulletins read and processed: 1
[19582] 080128/0427[DC 6]  Shutting down.

[weather@wi00-00 pfm_ccf]$ head junk
^A^M^M #These are added for the email.. the real tags don't show in head 
FOUS54 KBMX 272359
PFMBMX
POINT FORECAST MATRICES
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL
559 PM CST SUN JAN 27 2008
ALZ018-281045-
 ADSDEN-ETOWAH AL
I get the same errors for the same series of commands for the dcgmos program. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
dan
  • 2008 messages navigation, sorted by:
    1. Thread
    2. Subject
    3. Author
    4. Date
    5. ↑ Table Of Contents
  • Search the gembud archives: