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20060317: gdgsfc question



Jon,

Double check your ATE station entry to make sure
you haven't used tabs in the columns. A look at the
SLAT;SLON;SELV might give a tip as to where the
column are off, or if the data is coming from another 
station in the table with that unexpected lat/lon.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:11, Case.Jon wrote:
> Dear Gembud,
>  
> I'm tring to extract NWP point forecasts into a surface file in the
> following manner:
>  
> (1) Created a sub-set list of the sfstns.tbl file, adding a new
> station to the list (which I called "ATE" for now).
> (2) Created new surface file with sfcfil.
> (3) Run gdgsfc to extract the surface parameters to the stations in
> the surface file created in (2). 
> (4) Examine extracted data using sflist. 
>  
> The problem I've encountered is with the new station "ATE".  Even
> though I defined the lat/lon and rest of its station data correctly in
> the sub-setted .tbl file, the data are not getting corrected extracted
> to the station.  In fact, sflist shows the slat and slon as completely
> incorrect, not at all reflecting the values I put into the station
> table file used in sfcfil.  
>  
> So, what can I do to get the new station data recognized within the
> surface file?
> Thanks in advance,
> Jon
> 
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