[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #48001] History for met

Fri Jul 22 13:50:09 MDT 2011

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Hello,

I attended the MET tutorial recently… came back to my work and tried using it… For starters I tried to use bufr files in prepbufr… and I tried metars in prepbufr… neither worked. Do You have any secrets you can share?… Here is the error message for both instances:

***********BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT**************
 BUFRLIB: OPENBF - FIRST 4 BYTES READ FROM RECORD IN INPUT FILE CONNECTED TO UNIT  11 NOT 'BUFR', DOES NOT CONTAIN BUFR DATA
 ***********BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT**************

Thanks for your help
Scott Gregory

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Subject: met
From: Paul Oldenburg
Time: Fri Jul 01 08:34:04 2011

Scott,

I attached some beta code that another user sent to us a while back.
Specifically, it processes MADIS NetCDF data
containing METAR data.  Below is a message from my colleague, John,
about this code.

As for reading BUFR obs, can you give me more information about where
these obs came from?  PrepBUFR is actually a
special kind of BUFR file that is generated by NCEP, so pb2nc was not
intended to read all BUFR files.  Is there a way
to dump those observations to text?  Then, you could reformat them and
read them using ascii2nc.

Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Paul

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I looked closer at the madis2nc code and see that this really only
supports MADIS data that contains METARS.
Specifically, it looks for this global attribute:
  title = "MADIS - Meteorological Surface - METAR"

If we add better support for this in a future release of MET, we'll
add in support for the other MADIS data types.

I've attached the a tar file containing the madis2nc code for
METv3.0.1.  Please perform the following steps:
  cd METv3.0.1
  mv /path/to/METv3.0.1_madis2nc_beta.tar.gz .
  tar -xvzf METv3.0.1_madis2nc_beta.tar.gz

And then try rebuilding MET.  The madis2nc executable should appear in
the bin directory.

Please note that I can't make any claims on the accuracy of this code.
It's contributed code at this point that we have
spent little to no time testing.  So please use it at your own risk.

On 06/30/2011 04:14 PM, RAL HelpDesk {for Scott Gregory} wrote:
>
> Thu Jun 30 16:14:42 2011: Request 48001 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by sgregory at precisionwind.com
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: met
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: sgregory at precisionwind.com
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=48001 >
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I attended the MET tutorial recently… came back to my work and tried
using it… For starters I tried to use bufr files in prepbufr… and I
tried metars in prepbufr… neither worked. Do You have any secrets you
can share?… Here is the error message for both instances:
>
> ***********BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT**************
>  BUFRLIB: OPENBF - FIRST 4 BYTES READ FROM RECORD IN INPUT FILE
CONNECTED TO UNIT  11 NOT 'BUFR', DOES NOT CONTAIN BUFR DATA
>  ***********BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT**************
>
> Thanks for your help
> Scott Gregory

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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #48001] met
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Fri Jul 01 09:40:47 2011

Scott,

This is John Halley Gotway.  I saw Paul's email regarding the issue
you
sent and thought I'd chime in here as well.  The email/code he sent
you
was actually in relation to using NetCDF MADIS point observations in
MET.

However, it sounds like you're getting this error message when using
PREPBUFR observations.  Good news, there's an easy fix.  Please refer
to
the following page of the online tutorial in the "Checking for Errors"
section:
   http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/online_tutorial/METv3.0/compilation/test_scripts.php

All you need to do is edit your top-level Makefile to turn on or off
the
"-DBLOCK" flag.  Hopefully that'll do it.

Thanks,
John

>
> <URL: https:
rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=48001 >
>
> Scott,
>
> I attached some beta code that another user sent to us a while back.
> Specifically, it processes MADIS NetCDF data
> containing METAR data.  Below is a message from my colleague, John,
about
> this code.
>
> As for reading BUFR obs, can you give me more information about
where
> these obs came from?  PrepBUFR is actually a
> special kind of BUFR file that is generated by NCEP, so pb2nc was
not
> intended to read all BUFR files.  Is there a way
> to dump those observations to text?  Then, you could reformat them
and
> read them using ascii2nc.
>
> Please let me know if you have any other questions.
>
> Paul
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> I looked closer at the madis2nc code and see that this really only
> supports MADIS data that contains METARS.
> Specifically, it looks for this global attribute:
>   title = "MADIS - Meteorological Surface - METAR"
>
> If we add better support for this in a future release of MET, we'll
add in
> support for the other MADIS data types.
>
> I've attached the a tar file containing the madis2nc code for
METv3.0.1.
> Please perform the following steps:
>   cd METv3.0.1
>   mv /path/to/METv3.0.1_madis2nc_beta.tar.gz .
>   tar -xvzf METv3.0.1_madis2nc_beta.tar.gz
>
> And then try rebuilding MET.  The madis2nc executable should appear
in the
> bin directory.
>
> Please note that I can't make any claims on the accuracy of this
code.
> It's contributed code at this point that we have
> spent little to no time testing.  So please use it at your own risk.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 06/30/2011 04:14 PM, RAL HelpDesk {for Scott Gregory} wrote:
>>
>> Thu Jun 30 16:14:42 2011: Request 48001 was acted upon.
>> Transaction: Ticket created by sgregory at precisionwind.com
>>        Queue: met_help
>>      Subject: met
>>        Owner: Nobody
>>   Requestors: sgregory at precisionwind.com
>>       Status: new
>>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=48001 >
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I attended the MET tutorial recentlyâ€¦ came back to my work and
tried
>> using itâ€¦ For starters I tried to use bufr files in prepbufrâ€¦
and I
>> tried metars in prepbufrâ€¦ neither worked. Do You have any secrets
you
>> can share?â€¦ Here is the error message for both instances:
>>
>> ***********BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT**************
>>  BUFRLIB: OPENBF - FIRST 4 BYTES READ FROM RECORD IN INPUT FILE
>> CONNECTED TO UNIT  11 NOT 'BUFR', DOES NOT CONTAIN BUFR DATA
>>  ***********BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT**************
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>> Scott Gregory
>
>
>

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