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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