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Re: 20060323: Radar Level II question

David,

I was able to display your file, so the format is fine.
Are you using 5.9.1 (comparing apples to apples)?
Are you using my datatype.tbl entry for NEXRII which specified the file
name is %SITE%_YYYYMMDD_HHNN?

Its OK to use a full file path to the file, but the code will use the
NEXRII template to get the file alias when the site ID is not in the
data, so that %SITE% string must match your KOKX part of the file-
which it should, unless your datatype.tbl doesn't have the NEXRII
template (if you had an NCEP datatype.tbl file for example).

Double check that your path is correct. Is that OKX correct and not
KOKX?:
/usr1/data/dnovak/radar/001230/OKX/

Try running gpnexr2 from the directory containing the data and check the
file permissions if all else fails.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 10:34, David Novak wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
> Yup did the gunzip, and now I used the od command and see what you see. 
> HOWEVER, I get the same error message.
> 
> An example data file and my script is at:
> 
> Do you see anything strange?
> Thanks!
> Dave
> 
> Steve Chiswell wrote:
> 
> >David,
> >
> >NCDC has compressed the individual files within the tarfile
> >(each file has a .Z extension).
> >
> >You have to use the uncompress command on the file. At that point, the
> >first 9 bytes should be "ARCHIVE2.", eg:
> >%od -c KOKX_20011230_0959 | head -1
> >0000000   A   R   C   H   I   V   E   2   .   3   8   4  \0  \0   ,   :
> >
> >With your file naming as shown below, gpnexr2 will be able to obtain the
> >site id from the file name which is required in pre build 5.0 files
> >that lacked the station ID or location within the data.
> >
> >Steve Chiswell
> >Unidata User SUpport
> >
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 09:49, David Novak wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Thanks Steve and all,
> >>
> >>One other question...I recently downloaded Nexrad Level II radar data 
> >>for a Dec 2000 case from the NCDC HADS website:
> >> http://hurricane.ncdc.noaa.gov/pls/plhas/has.dsselect
> >>
> >>The data in 2000 is apparently in a different format than more recent 
> >>data, since a more on the data files shows different text at the top. 
> >>Consequently, I get the following error upon trying to plot using gpnexr2:
> >>
> >>Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:    : No such file or directory
> >>wsr88d_to_radar: No valid site ID info found.
> >> [IM -3]  Image file
> >>/usr1/data/dnovak/radar/001230/OKX/KOKX_20001230_0959 not a supported format
> >> [IM -8]  Could not open LUT file ...
> >> [GEMPLT -15]  NIPROJ - Invalid projection specified.
> >> [GG -7]  No map drawn.
> >> [GEMPLT -15]  NIPROJ - Invalid projection specified.
> >> [GG -13]  Error drawing lat/lon grid.
> >>
> >>
> >>Has anyone else noticed this? Is there a workaround?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Dave
> >>P.S. The data file was too large to post...
> >>
> >>Steve Chiswell wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>David,
> >>>
> >>>We decode the NLDN data from binary files into GEMPAK surface
> >>>files and use SFMAP to plot the data, points, etc.
> >>>
> >>>Since your data is not of the same format as our IDD feed to
> >>>use our dcnldn decoder, you can put your data into the
> >>>ascii format used by SFLIST for importing into a GEMPAK
> >>>surface file using SFEDIT as shown here:
> >>>
> >>>http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/getfile?file=/content/support/help/MailArchives/gempak/msg04454.html
> >>>
> >>>Steve Chiswell
> >>>Unidata User Support
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:58, David Novak wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>All -
> >>>>
> >>>>Is there a GEMPAK program to plot lightning data? It's not obvious to
> >>>>me. I have text files with that contain
> >>>>(1) date, (2) time, (3) latitude, (4) longitude, (5) peak current and
> >>>>polarity, (6) chi square value
> >>>>
> >>>>Thanks!
> >>>>Dave
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>