Thanks to those who responded. It turns out that stationIDs can be up
to 8 chars in length, but must begin with a char and must be comprised
entirely of capital letters and/or the digits 0-9.
So my stationID 16980603 begins with a 1. Changing that to a char fixes it.
Janine
Stephen Sinnis wrote:
Hi Janine.
I made two changes and successfully imported and listed your data:
GEMPAK-SFCFIL>l
SFOUTF = 20020612.sfc
SFPRMF = P01M/0.0-300.0-0.01
STNFIL = stationCD.fil
SHIPFL = NO
TIMSTN = 24/5
SFFSRC = metr
GEMPAK-SFCFIL>r
SFCFIL PARAMETERS:
New surface file: 20020612.sfc
Parameter file: P01M/0.0-300.0-0.01
Station file:
Number of stations in STNFIL: 1
Number of additional stations: 5
Total number of stations: 6
Total number of times: 24
This file will be a standard surface file.
Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
The file has been created.
Parameters requested: SFOUTF,SFPRMF,STNFIL,SHIPFL,TIMSTN,SFFSRC.
GEMPAK-SFEDIT>l
SFEFIL = 20020612.txt
SFFILE = 20020612.sfc
GEMPAK-SFEDIT>r
SFEDIT PARAMETERS:
Edit file: 20020612.txt
Output surface file: 20020612.sfc
Parameters to be added to file:
P01M
Enter <cr> to accept parameters or type EXIT:
Parameters requested: SFEFIL,SFFILE.
GEMPAK-SFLIST>l
SFFILE = 20020612.sfc
AREA = dset
DATTIM = all
SFPARM = dset
OUTPUT = T
IDNTYP = STID
GEMPAK-SFLIST>r
PARM = P01M
STN YYMMDD/HHMM P01M
020612/0000 0.00
020612/0100 0.00
020612/0200 0.00
020612/0300 0.00
020612/0400 0.00
020612/0500 0.00
020612/0600 0.00
020612/0700 0.00
020612/0800 0.00
020612/0900 0.00
020612/1000 0.00
020612/1100 0.00
020612/1200 0.00
020612/1300 0.00
020612/1400 0.00
020612/1500 0.00
020612/1600 0.00
020612/1700 0.00
020612/1800 0.00
020612/1900 0.00
020612/2000 0.00
020612/2100 0.00
020612/2200 0.00
020612/2300 0.00
Stephen Sinnis
Pelmorex Media Inc
T. 905.829.1159 x1379
F. 905.829.5800
