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Programs
DCAIRM
DCAIRM decodes airmet (AIRman's METeorological Information)
reports from a real-time data feed, or from a file fed to the
program through standard input, and writes the data to an ASCII
file. The program is controlled by inputs to the command line.
The inputs are program options and the output file name or template.
For example, for real-time data feeds:
dcairm [options] output_file
If running the program interactively with standard input, the -c
option must be used. The input file must also be specified.
For example:
dcairm -c YYMMDD/HHNN [other_options] output_file < input_file
A template may be used to specify the output file name. The file
name template uses the date and time of the bulletin or report
to replace the following characters.
YYYY or YY Year with or without the century
MM Month number
DD Day
HH Hour
NN Minute
The format of the output ASCII file is as follows:
|Type|Issue_time|Start_time|End_time|Identifier|Update|Flt_lvl_1|
Flt_lvl_2|Corr_amd_tst_flag|Cancel_flag
Lat1 Lon1
Lat2 Lon2
Lat3 Lon3
. .
. .
. .
(Note that the first two lines shown above appear as a single
line in the output file.)
Where: Type is IR (instrument flight rules), MO (mountain
obscuration), TB (turbulence), IC (icing),
SW (sustained winds), or WS (low-level wind shear).
Issue_Time, Start_time and End_time are full GEMPAK
date/time strings
Identifier is composed of the region and a sequence number
Update is the airmet update number
Flt_lvl_1 and Flt_lvl_2 are the flight levels
Corr_amd_tst_flag is a flag indicating a correction (1),
an amendment (2), and/or a test (flag + 3)
Cancel_flag is a flag indicating a cancellation (0 or 1)
Extra spaces may appear anywhere in this line of information,
except in the first character position. The first character must
be a bar (|).
The latitude and longitude values are read using the FORTRAN
format (2F9.2). The number of points may vary.