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[McIDAS #RWL-811432]: 20081004: bad lat/lon for Tuscon upper air data in MD file

Hi Don,

re:
> I'm looking at the upper air data and found that the lat/lon
> for the Tuscon, AZ station (72274) is bad.  STNLIST shows:
> 
> chico.unidata.ucar.edu: stnlist.k 72274
> IDN   ID     Station Name         Data Types        ST CO LAT        LON      
>    ELE
> ----- -----  -------------------- ----------------- -- -- ---------- 
> ----------  ----
> 72274 KTUS   Tucson               M 36RT         EG AZ US   32:07:53 
> 110:57:19   805
> 72274 KTWC   Tuscon                   R             AZ US  -213906:21:44 
> -213906:21:44     0
> Number of stations listed: 2
> stnlist.k: Done
> 
> It looks like getting rid of the second entry would fix this.
> 
> In the latest MD file, 72274 is in column 11.
> 
> I've coded around this (trying to do a barnes analysis) for now.

I assumed that this would be easy to override by making an appropriate entry
in the STNDB.SITE file, but I have not yet been able to get this to work.
As soon as I do, I will update the STNDB.SITE file in the McIDAS v2007/2008
distributions and cut new addenda.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: RWL-811432
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed