Description of decoded EMC Doppler radial files sent from NOAA aircraft The EMC radials files that go to the NWS gateway are encoded. I have software at AOML that can decode them and put them on our ftp site (via https). Below are a few lines from a file. Line 1: YYYYMMDD (year month day [GMT] that the flight started Line 2: Aircraft number NXXRF (42, 43, or 49) Line 3: Storm number 100's are Atlantic, 200's are eastern Pacific, and 300's are central Pacific So 115 below is AL15 Line 4: How many radial bins Line 5: The radius of the first bin Line 6: The radial resolution of the data Line 7: Octal for type of data. Showing whether data have reflectivity, radial velocity, or width. 001 means reflectivity only 010 means radial velocity only and 100 means width only. So 2 in octal is 010 or radial velocities only. Line 8: Type of antenna. 3 is the antenna designed by Malibu for AOC for the P3's. 2 is the antenna designed for the G-IV Line 9: Which repeats between radial velocity data Line 10: Epoch time, aircraft latitude, aircraft longitude, aircraft altitude (m), mathematical earth-relative azimuth of pointing angle (0 east, 90 north, 180 west, 270 south), earth-relative elevation angle Lines between lines of type line 10; Doppler radial velocity, relative to earth, with aircraft motion projection removed, and an estimated fall speed removed as well. -8888 is a flag. Velocities are NINT(Vr*10). Vr defined positive outward. First lines of example data file follow. 20221031 43 115 39 72.500000 1500.000000 2 3 1667212933.105 16.286 -76.031 3196.000 130.255 32.441 -8888 45 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 1667212933.117 16.286 -76.031 3196.000 130.550 31.510 -8888 45 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 1667212933.129 16.286 -76.031 3196.000 130.842 30.547 -8888 48 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 1667212933.141 16.286 -76.031 3196.000 131.073 29.752 -8888 59 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 1667212933.152 16.286 -76.031 3196.000 131.329 28.830 -8888 46 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 1667212933.164 16.286 -76.031 3196.000 131.584 27.871 -8888 47 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 -8888 …and many more repeating radials after for up to 5 minutes of data.