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Re: 19991012: Upper Air decoder

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  • Subject: Re: 19991012: Upper Air decoder
  • Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 09:41:37 -0600 (MDT)
Don,

The fixes have been done, so the latest files might be a mixture of
dew-points and dew-point depressions.  The synTime was fixed a couple
days ago, so it should be correct.

Robb....


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Don Murray wrote:

> 
> Hi Robb-
> 
> I talked to a guy at FSL today who worked on the raob.cdl.
> His answers to my questions are:
> 
> 1) Dewpoint should be stored as a depression.  I've modified
> my reader to handle either case.
> 
> 2) synTime should be the synoptic time (00, 03, 06, etc) and
> relTime should be the time in the sounding data (release time).
> 
> Please make these corrections in the decoder and let me know,
> then I'll try them out.
> 
> Don
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