Prod cdo 2.5.1 (Debian) emits named shortnames (tpag10, 2tag2, saip, code11…)
where cdo 2.6.0 (Mac) emits var11/var33/etc. The parser only recognized
varNN, so every prod NARR fetch failed with "no parseable values in cdo
output" and all 350 in-flight jobs discarded.
Switch cdo args from `-outputtab,name,lev,value` to `-outputtab,code,...`.
cdo then outputs the raw numeric NCEP GRIB1 parameter code regardless of
version, and @cdo_code_to_name maps that integer to the semantic name we
already use downstream (TMP/HGT/SPFH/…).
Verified by reproducing on both a 2010 NARR file (fixture) and a 2007 file
fetched live — both now emit identical numeric code rows.
Prod hit "no parseable values in cdo output" for a 2007 record.
Without the actual cdo output it's guesswork whether it's a different
parameter-table format, an empty result, or something else. Capture
stderr (stderr_to_stdout: true) and include first 500 chars of output
so the error message has enough signal to diagnose.
Post-2014 contacts with hrrr_status=:unavailable were being dispatched to
NARR, which 404s because NCEI's archive ends 2014-10-02. 14K of the 14.3K
candidates in prod are post-2014 — these are HRRR's responsibility.
- NarrClient.in_coverage?/1 returns true only inside 1979-01-01 → 2014-10-02
- narr_jobs_for_contact and maybe_enqueue_narr (contact_live) bail out of
coverage returning []
- BackfillEnqueueWorker.type_filter scopes :narr to qso_timestamp <
coverage_end so the cron doesn't keep picking post-2014 candidates
After the NARR backfill landed, nothing reachable from the app calls
any of these modules. Net removal: ~2700 lines.
Deleted:
- Microwaveprop.Workers.{Era5Fetch,Era5Submit,Era5Poll,Era5MonthBatch}Worker
- Microwaveprop.Weather.{Era5BatchClient,Era5Client}
- Mix.Tasks.Era5Backfill (superseded by BackfillEnqueueWorker cron)
- Matching test files (~1100 LOC of test)
- era5/era5_submit/era5_poll/era5_batch queue blocks from runtime.exs
- era5_req_options Req.Test stub config from test.exs
Kept (actively used or intentionally preserved):
- Era5Profile schema (the era5_profiles table is the NARR target)
- Era5CdsJob schema + its test (inspection handle on the era5_cds_jobs
table, which retains rows from the failed CDS runs)
- :era5 type key in ContactWeatherEnqueueWorker / BackfillEnqueueWorker
(the symbol still means "historical backfill", just routed to NARR now)
Swapped the one remaining live Era5FetchWorker call site in
contact_live/show.ex's maybe_enqueue_era5 path to NarrFetchWorker
(with NarrClient.snap_to_analysis_hour for the 3-hourly slot).
Test suite: 1513 tests, 0 failures (-50 from the deleted era5 test
files). No compile warnings. Credo clean.
extract_profile_from_file shells out to cdo:
cdo -outputtab,name,lev,value -remapnn,lon=X_lat=Y <merged.grb>
parses the text output (varNNN ↔ NCEP GRIB1 param number lookup),
maps surface records to era5_profiles fields, builds the pressure
profile from each (TMP, HGT, SPFH) triple, and merges in the derived
fields from SoundingParams.derive/1. Returns the same attrs shape as
Era5BatchClient.build_profile_attrs/5 so the existing
bulk_insert_profiles path can ingest NARR rows unchanged.
fetch_profile_at picks records from a fetched inventory, byte-range
fetches each one into a per-record temp file, runs cdo -merge to build
a composite, calls extract_profile_from_file, and cleans up via
try/after.
Drive-by fix: ThetaE.dewpoint_from_spfh/2 returns Kelvin (its existing
test asserts that explicitly). Era5BatchClient was passing that
Kelvin value straight into "dwpc" (Celsius), which would then crash
SoundingParams.compute_refractivity_profile when it called Buck's
saturation-vapor-pressure equation with t=294 instead of t=21. The
bug never surfaced because era5_profiles is empty in production —
no ERA5 backfill has ever succeeded. Fixed in both era5_batch_client
and the new narr_client by subtracting 273.15 in the wrapper. Both
wrappers now have a comment pointing at the K→C conversion.
Test fixture test/fixtures/narr/narr_dfw_2010-06-15_12z.grb is the
spike-captured composite (1.1 MB — Lambert conformal projection
isn't sellonlatbox-subsettable so we can't shrink it further).
parse_inventory walks the wgrib1-format .inv text and returns a
{var, level} -> {byte_offset, length} index, computing each record's
length from the next record's offset (or file_size for the last one).
fetch_inventory does a GET on the .inv URL plus a HEAD on the .grb URL
to learn its size, then delegates to parse_inventory.
Both stubbable via Req.Test (config/test.exs adds narr_req_options
matching the existing era5_req_options / giro_req_options pattern).
Spike fixture at test/fixtures/narr/narr-a_221_20100615_1200_000.inv
backs the parser test — verifies the ("TMP", "2 m above gnd") and
("WVVFLX", "atmos col") records line up with the real bytes.
First slice of the NARR backfill client: url_for/1,
url_for_inventory/1, and snap_to_analysis_hour/1. Pure functions,
no network. Validates that NARR analyses only exist at 3-hourly
slots (00/03/06/09/12/15/18/21 UTC). The byte-range fetch and
cdo-driven point extraction land in follow-up commits per
docs/plans/2026-04-15-merra2-historical-backfill.md.
