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Pete and Jason, thanks. I am now getting somewhere, although not completely. I added the header/footer control characters and am now spitting out a log. I am also using the cycles that Pete showed me instead of the data I was pulling before. The logfile for dcmetr is telling me it's reading all the way through the file, but tells me 0 bulletins were processed. Below is a copy of the logfile and a copy of the commands I'm running. My addafos.csh script is exactly like Pete's. My command: cat 16Z.TXT | ./addafos.csh | dcmetr -a 500 -v 2 -t 60 $GEMDATA/obs/hrly/YYYYMMDD.hrly Also tried: cat ob.txt | ./addafos.csh | dcmetr -a 500 -v 2 -t 60 $GEMDATA/obs/hrly/20100415.hrly dcmetr.log: [3532] 100415/1221[DC 3] Starting up. Version 5.11.1 [3532] 100415/1221[DCMETR 7] DCMETR version: 3.3 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 11/102399 bytes strt 0 newstrt 11 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/102388 bytes strt 11 newstrt 4107 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/98292 bytes strt 4107 newstrt 8203 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/94196 bytes strt 8203 newstrt 12299 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/90100 bytes strt 12299 newstrt 16395 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/86004 bytes strt 16395 newstrt 20491 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/81908 bytes strt 20491 newstrt 24587 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/77812 bytes strt 24587 newstrt 28683 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/73716 bytes strt 28683 newstrt 32779 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/69620 bytes strt 32779 newstrt 36875 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/65524 bytes strt 36875 newstrt 40971 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/61428 bytes strt 40971 newstrt 45067 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/57332 bytes strt 45067 newstrt 49163 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/53236 bytes strt 49163 newstrt 53259 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/49140 bytes strt 53259 newstrt 57355 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/45044 bytes strt 57355 newstrt 61451 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/40948 bytes strt 61451 newstrt 65547 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/36852 bytes strt 65547 newstrt 69643 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/32756 bytes strt 69643 newstrt 73739 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/28660 bytes strt 73739 newstrt 77835 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/24564 bytes strt 77835 newstrt 81931 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/20468 bytes strt 81931 newstrt 86027 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/16372 bytes strt 86027 newstrt 90123 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/12276 bytes strt 90123 newstrt 94219 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4096/8180 bytes strt 94219 newstrt 98315 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 4084/4084 bytes strt 98315 newstrt 102399 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] read 0/0 bytes strt 102399 newstrt 102399 [3532] 100415/1221[DC -9] End of input data file. [3532] 100415/1221[DC 5] Normal termination. [3532] 100415/1221[DC 2] Number of bulletins read and processed: 0 [3532] 100415/1221[DC 6] Shutting down. So now it reads the file, but won't spit it out anywhere, and does not seem to recognize the data as METAR bulletins. Thanks for everyone's help. P.S. I tried looking for Steve Chiswell's previous post on this issue and could not seem to find it. Can anyone link me to it? Thanks! On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:22 AM, <pmanousos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Colton - We are pulling data off NOAA's tgftp server and running it > through dcmetr. But we found (thanks to Steve Chizwell) that we needed to > bound the ob with a string of "AFOS" control characters for the decoder to > work. Here is what we did - > > 1. Created a script "addafos.csh" as follows (these are all zeroes, not > capital "Oh"s) > > #!/bin/csh -f > printf "\001\r\r\n000 \r\r\n" > cat > printf "\r\r\n\003" > > 2. chmod 777 afos.csh) > > 3. Run the ob (contained in ob.txt) through addafos.csh and dcmetr as > follows > cat ob.txt | ./addafos.csh | dcmetr -a 500 -v 2 -t 60 > $GEMDATA/obs/hrly/YYYYMMDD.hrly > > > Our decode script which contains step 3 actually will make "addafos.csh" if > it doesnt exist locally. By the way you may want to try pulling > ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/cycles/hhZ.txt (where hh > is the current hour in UTC). This contains specials and will allow you > decode all obs around the globe in less than 15 min. If you run a master > decode script every 15 min, you will have updated obs (surface, not ship), > from anywhere over the globe. > > Pete > > gembud-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/15/2010 03:19:33 AM: > > > > Hello all! > > > > I am having issues using the DCMETR decoder, and knew this > > was the right place to ask for help. > > > > As I am not a university or institution of note, I am not > > using LDM or the IDD, and instead had the idea of maybe > > pulling data off of the NOAA ftp server at ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/ > > . I can successfully login via scripting, etc. I can cd to the > > ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/DF.an/DC.sflnd/DS.metar > > directory, which contains updated metar files. However, > > these are in a .txt format, and I'm not 100% sure if they > > are formatted the way DCMETR needs them to be as input > > files. I am rather new to this, but am learning quickly. I > > just need some data to play with! If anyone can tell me > > what I may be doing wrong, I would greatly appreciate it. > > Here are the commands I'm using once I have my file. > > > > dcmetr -c YYMMDD/HHNN sfcdata.gem < sn.0114.txt > > > > (the above command's general format I copied from the > > phelp file for dcmetr) > > > > dcmetr -c sfcdata.gem < sn.0114.txt > > dcmetr -c /home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/data/sfcdata.gem < > > /home/gempak/NAWIPS/gempak/data/sn.0114.txt > > > > As you can see, I try specifying explicitly and still, all > > dcmetr does is hang for about half a second, then put me > > back at the prompt. Nothing is generated as far as logs > > go, so I have no idea what's going on. I hope this is > > clear enough. Please help! > > > > -- > > Colton Ancell > > Geophysics Major, Texas Tech University. > > KE5DXX_______________________________________________ > > > gembud mailing list > > gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: http: > > //www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > ----------------------------------------- > The information contained in this message is intended only for the personal > and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. If the reader of this > message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering > it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received > this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or > copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify us immediately, and delete the > original message. -- Colton Ancell Geophysics Major KE5DXX
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