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Brent, thanks for the bug reports, they are indeed problems. the next release will have the fixes. have you looked at the new metar decoder metar2nc.new1? the netCDF file is almost CF compliant, it offers following links to get time series on a station, the performance is better and it packs a day's worth of data into one file ~40 megs. i would appreciate your comments. also have you heard that the nws is planning to change the text format to a bufr format, what do you think about that? robb... On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Brent Shaw wrote: > Greetings, > > I think I found a bug in the metar2nc decoder that causes METAR parsing > problems intermittently (version 3.1.1 is the one I am looking at). > > The attached metar2nc.txt file has the snippet of code that parses RVR. > You will notice I commented out the "$i++" near the end. This was > causing $i to be incremented twice for every 1 RVR element. > > Also, I had problems with this version of metar2nc processing > visibility, weather, and cloud information. In the sections where > these elements are determined, I had to put a "\s*" right after the /^. > Older versions of the decoders did not appear to have the "^" to bind > the search to the beginning of the string. > > Regard, > > Brent > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > Brent Shaw > Scientific Technologist > Weathernews Americas Inc. > Direct: (405) 310-2851 > Mobile: (405) 740-9554 > brent.shaw@xxxxxxx > > www.us.weathernews.com > Weathernews, the world's largest, publicly-traded, full-service weather > company > ============================================================================== 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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