FFMP Text Data on AWIPS

1
FFMP Text Data on AWIPS

• /data/fxa/radar/k_at__at__at_/ffmp
• Where _at__at__at_ is your WSR-88D ID

2
FFMP file archiving

• ABR file is archived to hard disk on AWIPS for
  current GMT day and previous day only.
• /data/fxa/radar/k_at__at__at_/ffmp/yyyymmdd
  yyyymmdd.index for a GMT day
• Index file holds the time for each volume scan.
• Date file holds the ABR data for each stream
  (integer2 data with a record length equal to 2
  times the number of FFMP watersheds).

3
FFMP Basin Attributes

• /data/fxa/radar/k_at__at__at_/ffmp/basinList.dat
• 
  /basinToCounty.dat
• /binToBasin.dat
• Radar bins are numbered consecutively from 0 to
  82799 starting with radial 0.5 degrees. Bin 0
  0.5 degrees at 0.5 km, bin 230 1.5 degrees at
  0.5km, etc.

4
basinList.dat

• First line in file is number of basins (5609)
• Basin ID number in FFMP display is position in
  this file basin id 0 (2nd line), 1 (3rd line), 2
  (4th line), 3 (5th line), etc.
• Pfafstetter ID
• Latitude/longitude of basin centroid
• Name of creek

5
binToBasin.dat

• First line is number of basins
• Second line is data for watershed id0
• 1st element (number of bins assigned)
• Bin number for each assigned bin follows, if 3
  bins assigned to this stream, 3 bin numbers will
  be listed.
• Last element area of bin summation (km2)

6
basinToCounty.dat

• Number of counties on first line
• Two letter state
• County name
• County Fips code
• Number of streams assigned to this county
• List of Basin Ids assigned to this county
• County assigned by MDL lat/lon of centroid