20000406: bad station numbers for dcsynop?

>From: "Neil R. Smith" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Dept. Atmospheric Science, TAMU
>Keywords: 200004070005.SAA27188

>Well, I have dug and dug and can't find the station numbers
>that dcsynop is stumbling on. 
>
>Sample log file entries:
>DCSYNOP[5997]: 000406/2117: [DCSYNOP -10] Cannot set station 78959   for
>000406/1800
>DCSYNOP[5997]: 000406/2117: [DCSYNOP -10] Cannot set station 78389   for
>000406/1800
>DCSYNOP[5997]: 000406/2117: [DCSYNOP -10] Cannot set station 78398   for
>000406/1800
>DCSYNOP[5997]: 000406/2117: [DCSYNOP -10] Cannot set station 78961   for
>000406/1800
>
>Here is my pqact entry:
># Synoptic reports
># surface synoptic reports (SYNOP) in yymmddhh.gem
>#
>DDS|IDS        ^S[IMN][^VW].* .... ([0-3][0-9])
>       PIPE    /unidata/nawips/bin/irix/dcsynop -a 2000
>       -d /unidata/ldm/logs/dcsynop_sfsyn.log
>       -p /unidata/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/pack/sfsyn.pack
>       -s /unidata/nawips/gempak5.4/tables/stns/systns_upc.tbl
>       data/gempak/surface/syn/YYMMDDHH_sfcsyn.gem
>
>Yes, they are indeed not in the systns_upc.tb, but neither are they
>in any WMO number lookup on the web site.
>
>These error entries are making for an unnecessarily large log file.
>What do you diagnose and recommend?
>
>Thanks, -Neil
>-- 
>Neil R. Smith, Comp. Sys. Mngr.                address@hidden
>Dept. Atmospheric Sci., Texas A&M Univ.        979/845-6272 FAX:979/862-4466
>


Neil,
If you don't want to know about stations not found in the station table
unless you specify a more verbose level, say "-v 1", then
edit the file $NAWIPS/unidata/ldmbridge/dcsynop/dcsytogem.f-

approximately line 65 is currently:
              CALL DC_WLOG ( 0, 'DCSYNOP', -10, errstr, ier)

The "0" says the log message is level 0. Change this to:
              CALL DC_WLOG ( 1, 'DCSYNOP', -10, errstr, ier)

Now you will only get the log messages if you use a verbose level 
greater or equal to 1.

Recompile and install with:

cd $NAWIPS/unidata/ldmbridge/dcsynop
make clean
make all
make install
make clean

There are a lot of international stations that aren't in the table, primarily 
since I don't have a good source for them. I recently did receive a copy
of new stations from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (The 94xxx stations
and will update them as possible).

Steve Chiswell