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Mike, Great question. I probably should I have asked the same question, but ended up working with synoptic files on the NWS TGFTP ftp server, for example: ftp://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/SL.us008001/DF.an/DC.sflnd/DS.synop/sn.0140.txt I found that the GEMPAK decoder will decode the NWS TGFTP synoptic file if I insert special non-printing ASCII control characters the decoder is looking for in the NOAAPORT file but missing from the NWS TGFTP file: at the beginning: ctrl-v ctrl-a ctrl-v ctrl-m ctrl-v ctrl-m nnn where nnn is the Transmission sequence number. It is a three-digit group giving the transmission sequence of messages from one centre over a particular channel to the receiving centre on that channel. Numbers 000 to 999 inclusive must be used in a cyclic manner. (When International Alphabet No. 5 is used, the group nnn may be a fixed combination of three characters, if agreed between the centres concerned.) at the end: ctrl-c Those are the key sequences to generate these special charaters in the vi editor, which appear as follows in vi: ^C^A^M^M I found it works either at the beginning/end of the entire file, or each individual report in the file. Reports in the file come delineated by the hash-padded time stamp, eg "####018000127####". Replace these with the special characters. Reference: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WIS/Publications/WMO_386/WMO_386_Vol_I_en.pdf Here are my actual script instructions relating to the above notes: #First add a ^A^M^M to the top of the file and a ^C to the end of the file sed -i '1s/####.*/\x01\x0D\x0D\n000/' $fn #Replace every delinieator with a nnn number sequence sed -i 's/####.*/\x0D\x0D\n\x03\x01\x0D\x0D\n000/g' $fn #Add a ^C to the end of the file sed -i '$a\\x03' $fn Hope that helps. Regards, Craig On 7/25/2014 2:00 PM, gembud-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Send gembud mailing list submissions to > gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/gembud > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > gembud-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > You can reach the person managing the list at > gembud-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of gembud digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Synoptic Data source (Mike Hardiman - NWS Federal) > 2. Re: Synoptic Data source (Robert Mullenax) > 3. Re: Synoptic Data source (Kwan-Yin Kong - NOAA Federal) > 4. NMap2 on Ubuntu (Pettee, Warren) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 02:34:03 -0600 > From: Mike Hardiman - NWS Federal <mike.hardiman@xxxxxxxx> > To: gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [gembud] Synoptic Data source > Message-ID: > <CAFbcWUtQ7=oPGdWjJw6Tr=LHdfojEZOq4WdAQmfNdLWFk0wyvg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good source for synoptic surface data. I've been trying > to use the files available at http://weather.admin.niu.edu/data/, but I > keep getting errors with dclsfc: > > [8515] 140725/0228[LS -3] Bad group length - reject rest of report: 521 > SMMX01 MXBA 250600 > [8515] 140725/0228[LS 1] 76117 06/// /1703 10273 20188 38897 40014 51021 > 60002 7//// 8//// 90550 333 0//// 10361 20229 30/// 4//// 50 > [8515] 140725/0228[SF -10] Station 76117 is not in file. > [8515] 140725/0228[LS -3] Bad group length - reject rest of report: 521 > SMMX01 MXBA 250600 > [8515] 140725/0228[LS 1] 76161 06/// /1602 10332 20200 39875 40112 52015 > 60002 7//// 8//// 90550 333 0//// 10440 20303 30/// 4//// 50 > [8515] 140725/0228[SF -10] Station 76161 is not in file. > > Something that is in a format that's ready to be pushed through dclsfc > would be great... or already in gempak format would be even better! > > Thanks, > -Mike > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/gembud/attachments/20140725/36d8ee8e/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:46:59 +0000 > From: Robert Mullenax <Robert.Mullenax@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: Mike Hardiman - NWS Federal <mike.hardiman@xxxxxxxx>, > "gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [gembud] Synoptic Data source > Message-ID: > <DD3E9362ABFA2F4DAF1467D585193D11019C50@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Mike, > > Unidata has it already decoded on motherlode: > > http://motherlode.ucar.edu/decoded/gempak/syn/ > > Regards, > Robert Mullenax > CSBF Meteorology > > ________________________________________ > From: gembud-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [gembud-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] on > behalf of Mike Hardiman - NWS Federal [mike.hardiman@xxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 3:34 AM > To: gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [gembud] Synoptic Data source > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a good source for synoptic surface data. I've been trying to > use the files available at http://weather.admin.niu.edu/data/, but I keep > getting errors with dclsfc: > > [8515] 140725/0228[LS -3] Bad group length - reject rest of report: 521 > SMMX01 MXBA 250600 > [8515] 140725/0228[LS 1] 76117 06/// /1703 10273 20188 38897 40014 51021 > 60002 7//// 8//// 90550 333 0//// 10361 20229 30/// 4//// 50 > [8515] 140725/0228[SF -10] Station 76117 is not in file. > [8515] 140725/0228[LS -3] Bad group length - reject rest of report: 521 > SMMX01 MXBA 250600 > [8515] 140725/0228[LS 1] 76161 06/// /1602 10332 20200 39875 40112 52015 > 60002 7//// 8//// 90550 333 0//// 10440 20303 30/// 4//// 50 > [8515] 140725/0228[SF -10] Station 76161 is not in file. > > Something that is in a format that's ready to be pushed through dclsfc would > be great... or already in gempak format would be even better! > > Thanks, > -Mike > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 05:21:34 -0400 > From: Kwan-Yin Kong - NOAA Federal <kwan-yin.kong@xxxxxxxx> > To: Mike Hardiman - NWS Federal <mike.hardiman@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: "gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [gembud] Synoptic Data source > Message-ID: > <CADABNV0Rq11VKQ9CU93bO15C7j4NLHNqQ6FQ=YY3dAP933e4JA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi Mike, > > Try Iowa State's GEMPAK archives. Hope that helps. > > Kwan > > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 4:34 AM, Mike Hardiman - NWS Federal < > mike.hardiman@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for a good source for synoptic surface data. I've been trying >> to use the files available at http://weather.admin.niu.edu/data/, but I >> keep getting errors with dclsfc: >> >> [8515] 140725/0228[LS -3] Bad group length - reject rest of report: 521 >> SMMX01 MXBA 250600 >> [8515] 140725/0228[LS 1] 76117 06/// /1703 10273 20188 38897 40014 51021 >> 60002 7//// 8//// 90550 333 0//// 10361 20229 30/// 4//// 50 >> [8515] 140725/0228[SF -10] Station 76117 is not in file. >> [8515] 140725/0228[LS -3] Bad group length - reject rest of report: 521 >> SMMX01 MXBA 250600 >> [8515] 140725/0228[LS 1] 76161 06/// /1602 10332 20200 39875 40112 52015 >> 60002 7//// 8//// 90550 333 0//// 10440 20303 30/// 4//// 50 >> [8515] 140725/0228[SF -10] Station 76161 is not in file. >> >> Something that is in a format that's ready to be pushed through dclsfc >> would be great... or already in gempak format would be even better! >> >> Thanks, >> -Mike >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gembud mailing list >> gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ >> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/gembud/attachments/20140725/357a736d/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:25:10 +0000 > From: "Pettee, Warren" <wpettee@xxxxxxxx> > To: "gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [gembud] NMap2 on Ubuntu > Message-ID: <1406291110349.54856@xxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hello again, > > > (Got one more question after this one, sorry about the inundation of emails) > > > I have installed all of the fonts that Ubuntu is lacking to run the nprogs, > thus those errors no longer appear. But has anyone tried to access NMap2 from > Ubuntu and noticed that the product selection interface is very.. > temperamental? The list boxes get smaller and smaller as you move through > subsequent categories, and when you go back to select another product, the > menu is stuck in its collapsed state. Only solution at that point is to > restart NMap. Is there another X-11 library aside from the fonts that Ubuntu > needs? > > > (Our lab computers are running Ubuntu now.. I'm assuming to stop student > complaints about the interface and lack of Chrome.) > > > Thanks again, > > > -Warren > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <http://mailman.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/gembud/attachments/20140725/33457d46/attachment.html> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gembud mailing list > gembud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For list information or to unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/ > > End of gembud Digest, Vol 66, Issue 3 > ************************************* >
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