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Steve -
I changed the pqact.conf pattern action to your suggested form yesterday
morning. Since that time, the images have been showing echoes 100% of the
time. Thanks.
Chris
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Unidata Support wrote:
>
> Chris,
>
> The problem likely stems from the pqact.conf pattern action that is being
> used to
> store the data in the rcm file. The best pattern would use the /pRCM tag to
> ensure all the observations in the file are RCM's...at the time I created the
> www page, not all of our top level NOAAPORT ingestors were adding the pil tag,
> so I couldn't use that. Now, I see that several FTM messages are in that
> group. I would suggest:
>
> HDS ^SDUS4[0-6] .... ([0-3][0-9])([0-2][0-9])([0-5][0-9]).*/pRCM
>
>
> The actual problem is that my loop exits at the first bulletin that is not a
> RCM.
> I should be more lenient.
>
> This can be corrected in $NAWIPS/unidata/programs/gprcm/rcm.c by changing
> the while loop to a while and if loop starting line ~783:
>
> while((get_nextbull(fp,bultin,&lenbul) == 0)&&(isrcm(bultin,lenbul) == 0))
> {
> NEXINDX = get_ndex(bultin,lenbul);
> if(NEXINDX >= 0)
> {
> clat = RADARS[NEXINDX].stnlat; clon = RADARS[NEXINDX].stnlon;
>
> read_nexaa(bultin,lenbul,RADARS,NEXINDX,&new_time,trange,&mode,&valid);
> if(mode > MDNA) RADARS[NEXINDX].mode = mode;
> if((valid == 0)&&(mode > MDNE)) /* should only do precip and clear
> air */
> read_nexcc(bultin,lenbul,RADARS,NEXINDX,&new_time,trange);
> }
> }
>
>
> to:
>
> while(get_nextbull(fp,bultin,&lenbul) == 0)
> {
> if(isrcm(bultin,lenbul) == 0)
> {
> NEXINDX = get_ndex(bultin,lenbul);
> if(NEXINDX >= 0)
> {
> clat = RADARS[NEXINDX].stnlat; clon = RADARS[NEXINDX].stnlon;
>
> read_nexaa(bultin,lenbul,RADARS,NEXINDX,&new_time,trange,&mode,&valid);
> if(mode > MDNA) RADARS[NEXINDX].mode = mode;
> if((valid == 0)&&(mode > MDNE)) /* should only do precip and
> clear air */
> read_nexcc(bultin,lenbul,RADARS,NEXINDX,&new_time,trange);
> }
> }
> }
>
> If you make this change, simply recompile with:
>
> cd $NAWIPS/unidata/programs/gprcm
> make clean
> make all
> make install
> make clean
>
> Let me know what you find.
>
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
>
>
> >From: address@hidden (Chris Hennon)
> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> >Keywords: 200007041641.e64Gf5T01802
>
> >Steve -
> >
> >I have a csh script which produces a RCM image. I run it from the cron at
> >00 and 30 past the hour, 24 hours a day. 50% of the time it runs
> >flawlessly, 50% of the time it completes successfully but creates a map
> >with no echoes on it. The log file looks exactly the same, whether it
> >produces echoes or not:
> >
> > Parameters requested:
> >MAP,GAREA,PROJ,SATFIL,RADFIL,LATLON,PANEL,TITLE,TEXT,
> >
> >CLEAR,DEVICE,RCMFIL,RADTIM,RADDUR,DITHER,MESO,TVS,CNTR,MAXTOP,RADINFO,ECHO,
> > CLRBAR.
> > GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM>
> >GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM>
> >GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM>
> >GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> G
> >EMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM>
> >GEMPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GE
> >MPAK-GPRCM> GEMPAK-GPRCM> GPMAP PARAMETERS:
> >
> > Device: gf|/usr/local/apache/htdocs/rcm/national.gif
> > Projection: STR/90.0;-95.0;0.0
> > Graphics area name: 17.89;-116.2;50.0;-59.3
> > Map: 4
> > Title: 31/+1/Radar Summary (dbz) - echo tops (x100 ft)
> >000704/1630
> > Panel: 0
> > Latlon: 0
> > Clear: YES
> >Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:EAX Meso01 LLF
> > Parameters requested:
> >MAP,GAREA,PROJ,SATFIL,RADFIL,LATLON,PANEL,TITLE,TEXT,
> >
> >CLEAR,DEVICE,RCMFIL,RADTIM,RADDUR,DITHER,MESO,TVS,CNTR,MAXTOP,RADINFO,ECHO,
> > CLRBAR.
> > GEMPAK-GPRCM>
> >
> >My script is based on your example script posted on the webpage. Has
> >there been a change to the rcm decoder or rcm format that I may have
> >missed? Thanks for any ideas.
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >
>
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