Re: METAR

• To: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: METAR
• From: Robb Kambic <rkambic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:16:10 -0600 (MDT)

Jonathan,

Actually I had to rethink about my approach of wanting Metar variable
names to be CF standard quantities names.  My goal was to make a
uniform variable name so all the Metar decoders could be "standarized".
Now, I know this is impossible as you pointed this out in your
reply to the list with the example of wind speed. At this time I need to
create/check the variable names and include the CF standard quantities
with the NetCDF variable. There are a couple of new standard quantities
that might be needed, ie temperature at 2 meters. In talking with others,
surface temperature is always measured at 2 meters in the surface type
reports so not to be affected by radiation, etc from the surface itself. I
don't know how "models" deal with this problem. I need to revisit my Metar
variables to make a formal message to the CF list.

Thanks for the followup,
Robb...



On Sun, 4 Apr 2004, Jonathan Gregory wrote:

Dear Robb

Did you see my reply on the CF email list a while back about your METAR
queries? It would be useful to be able to do this, but I don't know precisely
enough what the contents of a METAR message mean, in order to clarify your
questions. How would you like to take this forward?

Best wishes

Jonathan

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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