West Coast/Alaska Tsunami Warning
Center
Operations Manual
NOAA/NWS/WCATWC
910 South Felton Street
Palmer, Alaska 99645
http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov
Section
4.1.4 – dumptide
Date Written: 3/2000
Development Language: MicroSoft C/C++ v7.0
Necessary Rings:
Input Ring -
WAVE_RING; reads TYPE_TRACEBUF format messages
Necessary Data Files:
DataPath - specifies
path for output data file
TideGageFile
– tide gage station information
Initialization File:
dumptide.d - read on
module start-up
Module Description:
This module takes specified channels from the WAVE_RING and outputs the
data in a simplified format to disk. It is intended for writing tide gage data
to disk to interface with the WC/ATWC tide gage display software. Channels to
output are specified in the initialization file in the same way as export_scn. Data is written in a common sea level data
format to a primary and backup disk file.
Graphical Interface:
This module has no graphical interface. Some errors are logged to the
Windows console, if created.