Necessary Fixes for gridded NUCAPS...

Several checks and fixes may need to be made to be able to display the gridded NUCAPS data properly in AWIPS.  

  1. Make sure you have a distribution file called griddednucaps.xml in /awips2/edex/data/utility/common_static/site/<site_name>/distribution
  2. Check to make sure there is a baseline gridded nucaps edex plugin here: /awips2/edex/lib/plugins (filename: gov.noaa.nws.sti.mdl.edex.plugin.griddednucaps.jar) 
  3. Look at the ingestGrib log in edex to see if the data made it to the decoder and if there are any errors with griddednucaps
  4. There are separate data stores for the soundings and the gridded nucaps.  Gridded nucaps is stored just like model data, not like satellite data, where there will be .h5 files in the grid/griddednucaps  hdf data store.  Soundings are in /satellite/nucaps/
  5. Style Rules fix: Place the nucapsImageryStyleRules.xml file at dx3:/awips2/edex/data/utility/common_static/site/<site_name>/styleRules
    1. Note that modifications will need to be made to the .xml file to change from HUN to your 3-letter office ID.
  6. You can change the Purge Rules in AWIPS to retain more swaths of the gridded NUCAPS data.  This may be helpful since some swaths are relatively small.  In order to do this, take the following steps...
    1. Open the Localization perspective in AWIPS
    2. Go to EDEX -> Purge Rules
    3. Find the gridPurgeRules.xml file and copy the BASE file to SITE level (unless you already have a SITE file)
    4. Add the code below somewhere in the file, but between the purgeRuleSet start and end tags.  Note: the 3 in the code below is just an example, and will save data for 3 days in this case.  Set the purge rules to retain data per your local office needs. 
    5. Save the file and restart EDEX

<rule>

<keyValue>griddednucaps</keyValue>

<period>03-00:00:00</period>

</rule>