McIDAS-XCD Administrator's Guide
Version 2020.1

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Data monitors

A data monitor is a process that runs one or more decoders. After the data is stored in the raw text or spool files, data monitors process the raw data into McIDAS files such as surface hourly observations, synoptic reports, upper air reports, and grid files.

The following table lists the supported McIDAS-XCD data monitors.

Monitor

Index

Data type

Decoded Data location

Configuration file

DMBIN

 

GRIB1, GRIB2 and BUFR

Native GRIB1, GRIB2 and BUFR

GRBFILER.CFG

DMCOND

 

GRIB2

Native GRIB2

CONFILER.CFG

DMGRID

 

GRIB1

Grid files

GRIBDEC.CFG

DMMISC

FO

NAMMOS

MD file NAM

NAMMOS.CFG

 

FO

GFSMOS

MD file GFS

GFSMOS.CFG

 

FT

Terminal Forecast

Rapid-Access System

TERMDEC.CFG

 

SD

MDR

Grid files

MDRDEC.CFG

 

TB

TIROS NAV

SYSNAV1

TIRDEC.CFG

 

UA

PIREP/AIREP

MD file PIRP

PIRPDEC.CFG

DMNEXR

 

Radar products

Compressed data files

NEXRFILE.CFG

DMRAOB

UJ

TEMP/PILOT

MD file IRAB/IRSG

IRABDEC.CFG

 

UJ

TEMP SHIP

MD file ITSHP

ITSHPDEC.CFG

DMSFC

SA

SAO/METAR

MD file ISFC

ISFCDEC.CFG

DMSYN

SM

SYNOPTIC

MD file SYN

SYNDEC.CFG

 

SM

SHIP/DRIBU

MD file ISHP

ISHPDEC.CFG

To make the data monitors more flexible, each is designed to use a text formatted configuration file similar to those used for circuit configuration. This configuration file contains the .IDX files to search, WMO headers to decode, decoder display number, MD file numbers to store data, etc.

Figure 2 shows an example of the configuration script file for the GFS MOS decoder.

Figure 2. GFS MOS Configuration File

#  GFSMOS.CFG   - Configuration file for the GFS MOS decoder

#   ----------- Cross Reference List  (do not change) -------------------

: FLAGS[01]  ERRORFLG
: FLAGS[02]  IDMONFLG
: FLAGS[03]  DISPLAYNUM
: FLAGS[04]  MDF
: FLAGS[05]  NROWS
: FLAGS[06]  NCOLS
: FLAGS[07]  RAPIDACCESS

: CFLAGS[01] ERRORFILE
: CFLAGS[02] OLDIDFILE
: CFLAGS[03] NEWIDFILE
: CFLAGS[04] IDTABLE
: CFLAGS[05] MASTERFILE
: CFLAGS[06] PTRFILE

#   -------------------- End Of Cross Reference List -------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------
# -               You can modify any of the fields below               -
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------

# decoder description

DESCRIPTION="GFSMOS Decoder"

# which indices to search for this decoder

INDEX=FO

# which specific wmo headers to activate the decoder for

WMO=FOUS    FOAK   FOPA
MINPRD=21    37     20
MAXPRD=26    39     20

# which specific station origins to activate the decoder for

ORIGIN=KWBC KWNO

# ======================================================================

ERRORFLG=0                # error output flag set to 1 to activate

ERRORFILE=GFSMOS.ERR      # error file name

IDMONFLG=0                # station id monitoring activation flag
                          #    set to 1 or 3 to monitor new stations
                          #    set to 2 or 3 to monitor old stations

OLDIDFILE=OLDGFS.IDM      # old station id file used for monitoring
NEWIDFILE=NEWGFS.IDM      # new station id file used for monitoring

DISPLAYNUM=15             # decoder number on status display

MDF=81                    # first real-time md file number to use for decoder

NROWS=84                  # number of rows to make for md file

NCOLS=2000                # number of columns to make for md file

RAPIDACCESS=1             # rapid access system activation flag, used for
                          # MOSRPT command.  set to 1 to activate, 0 to
                          # inactivate

IDTABLE=GFSMOS.IDT        # ID file to build when creating md file

MASTERFILE=STNDB.CORE     # master ID table file to use to build IDTABLE

PTRFILE=GFSMOS.RAP        # rapid access pointer file name

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