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The NCEPLIBS-bufr library contains routines and utilites for working with the WMO BUFR format.
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Extract Tank Receipt Time from section 1 of the BUFR message #333

Closed emilyhcliu closed 6 months ago

emilyhcliu commented 1 year ago

For DA application, we will need to know when the data is available for DA. BUFR message section contains such information. It is called "Tank Receipt Time".

"Tank Receipt Time" (rtrcpt)

Found BUFR message #    359
        Message length:         850
      Section 0 length:           8
          BUFR edition:           3

      Section 1 length:          18
          Master table:           0
    Originating center:           7 (= U.S. National Weather Service, National Centres for Environmental Prediction (NCEP))
 Originating subcenter:           3 (= NCEP Central Operations)
 Update sequence numbr:           0
    Section 2 present?: No
         Data category:           2 (= Vertical soundings (other than satellite))
     Local subcategory:           5 (= PIBAL)
 Internatl subcategory:          -1
  Master table version:          29
   Local table version:           0
                  Year:        2020
   `
              Month:          11
                   Day:           1
                  Hour:          11
                Minute:           0
                Second:          -1
 Number of data subsets:           2
     Data are observed?: Yes
   Data are compressed?: No
  Number of descriptors:           6
        1: 063000
        2: 363222
        3: 102000
        4: 031001
        5: 206001
        6: 063255
BUFR message #    359 of type NC002005 and date 2020110111 contains      2 subsets:
jbathegit commented 1 year ago

Just so everyone's aware, tank receipt time isn't in any BUFR message by default. Rather, it's only there if the application which generated the message made a call to subroutine strcpt to store it there during the time that the message was being generated. This is usually the case for messages in tank files that were generated via the bufr_tranjb application, but again I just wanted you to be aware that there may be some tank files out there where this isn't the case.

jbathegit commented 7 months ago

I never heard anything further about this. Is this still an active issue, or can this be closed?

jbathegit commented 6 months ago

Closing due to lack of feedback