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Wayne, I made a new release for metar2nc that includes the PNO indicator, it's decoders-2.4.2.tar.Z It's located of the ftp server www.unidata.ucar.edu Login as anonymous % cd pub/decoders % get decoders-2.4.2.tar.Z I did a sanity test on it. Seemed to work fine. Let me know how it works out so I know whether to do a general release. Thanks, Robb... On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Wayne Gibson wrote:
Robb, So far PNO is the only variable I'm aware of that's missing. However, we are targetting extraction of precipitation and temperature information and that is the only reason I ran into this flag. Here is a list of recent stations and times for which I found the PNO flag present in the LDM feed. 2003012317_sao.wmo ------------------ KFPR 231653Z KHWV 231656Z ! This one has PNO but no maintenance flag "$" KP75 231756Z 2003012318_sao.wmo ------------------ KFPR 231753Z KHWV 231756Z ! This one has PNO but no maintenance flag "$" KP75 231756Z Unfortunately, I won't be able to test metar2nc till I can get the NetCDF perl module to install properly. I've had lots of problems and will be sending out an email to support. Thanks for your quick response. Sincerely, Wayne >X-Authentication-Warning: wcfields.unidata.ucar.edu: rkambic owned process doing -bs >From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: gibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >cc: decoders <support-decoders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: 20030122:netCDF Decoders - Solaris 5.8 - metar2nc decoder >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Unidata Support wrote: > >> >> ------- Forwarded Message >> >> >To: support-decoders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >From: "Wayne Gibson" <gibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >Subject: netCDF Decoders - Solaris 5.8 - metar2nc decoder >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >Keywords: 200301222216.h0MMGKU22967 >> >> Institution: Oregon State University, Oregon Climate Service >> Package Version: decoders-2.4.0 >> Operating System: Solaris 5.8 >> Hardware Information: Sparc Sun-Blade-1000 >> Inquiry: I was interested in using the "metar2nc" decoder. There is one "Sensor Status Indicator" that I'm interested in having decoded. It is the "PNO" indicator. It is present only when the tipping bucket rain gauge is inoperative. I've looked at both the "cdl" file and the source code in the decoders distribution and cannot find any indication of this flag value. >> >> You would think that if the "PNO" indicator were present, the maintenance flag "$" would also be present, but inspection of some of the metar data for this month shows that to not be the case. >> >> Can you verify that "PNO" is not decoded? If it isn't, could that be added to the decoder? >> >> I work in a research group that models rainfall and temperature variables, so reliable precipitation data is very important to us. > > >Hi Wayne, > >Sure, I can add the "PNO" indicator to the decoder. Is there any other >variables that are missing? I really haven't look at the Metar >documentation for a long time, almost 5 years ago when I wrote the >decoder. I'll make a alpha release so you can test it. It will probably >be a couple of days before I can get to it. Also, do you have a list of >stations using the PNO because most reports only have a limited subset of >all the variables. > >Robb... > > > >> >> Wayne Gibson >> Oregon State University >> gibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> voice: (541) 7525547 >> >> >> >> >> ------- End of Forwarded Message >> >> > >============================================================================== >Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center >Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research >rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ >============================================================================== ----------------------- Wayne Gibson Oregon State University gibson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (541) 737-5696
============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ==============================================================================
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