NWS ASUS Bulletin
NWS ASUS Bulletin
Can anyone tell me what the trick is to plotting the ASUS frontal bulletin with DA.
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Re: NWS ASUS Bulletin
The problem is that NCEP several months ago changed the header from ASUS1 KWBC to ASUS01 KWBC, which disabled the ability to plot fronts. This can be solved if you can somehow edit the bulletin to make the change above, then reimport. You can also try placing the corrected copy in QUEUE.FRT or QUEUE.FRO and see if it will plot (this could work but I don't remember since this source code is old to me now).vawxman99 wrote:Can anyone tell me what the trick is to plotting the ASUS frontal bulletin with DA.
Our current test version, and of course the follow-on official release, will have this solved, and will allow for headers without the ASUS block.
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One way to fix the front issue is to write a little program that will just change ASUS01 in the bulletin to ASUS1. You can then schedule this program to run whenever you need it with Windows Scheduler.
You can write a script to download the frontal bulletin, sleep for enough time for your little program to run (via the scheduler) , and then import the fixed file into DA to plot the fronts. I've done it and it works marvelously.
You can download the little program I wrote if you wish. It is written in Java and here is the link:
http://www.student.smsu.edu/g/gjf757s/FixFrontFile.exe
This particular program reads the file called front.txt in the directory where the application is located, and outputs a file called newFront.txt. You should write the script so that you call the bulletin front.txt and import newFront.txt into DA to use.
If you have any questions, I would be happy to reply.
Grant
You can write a script to download the frontal bulletin, sleep for enough time for your little program to run (via the scheduler) , and then import the fixed file into DA to plot the fronts. I've done it and it works marvelously.
You can download the little program I wrote if you wish. It is written in Java and here is the link:
http://www.student.smsu.edu/g/gjf757s/FixFrontFile.exe
This particular program reads the file called front.txt in the directory where the application is located, and outputs a file called newFront.txt. You should write the script so that you call the bulletin front.txt and import newFront.txt into DA to use.
If you have any questions, I would be happy to reply.
Grant
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Excellent idea. Thanks for posting the link. I hope it helps some users.Grant Firl wrote:You can download the little program I wrote if you wish. It is written in Java and here is the link:
http://www.student.smsu.edu/g/gjf757s/FixFrontFile.exe
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With Purdue's LDM feed and a bit of Unix magic, I can easily make the ASUS01 into ASUS1 and available for download. I'm a little sleepy right now, so I won't script it until tomorrow, but the URL will be:
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/~bcotton/wx/d ... ont.latest
I'll keep the previous 24 hours worth of files around, in the same directory, listed as front-1, front-2, front-3, ..., front-8. This way, no special software is required.
Ben
http://www.eas.purdue.edu/~bcotton/wx/d ... ont.latest
I'll keep the previous 24 hours worth of files around, in the same directory, listed as front-1, front-2, front-3, ..., front-8. This way, no special software is required.
Ben