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Re: 20041207: Unidata decoder question (fwd)

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  • Subject: Re: 20041207: Unidata decoder question (fwd)
  • Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:26:10 -0700 (MST)

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
address@hidden             WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 17:52:58 -0700
From: Dazhong Yin <address@hidden>
To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20041207: Unidata decoder question

Robb,

Just want to let you I did it by going back to decoders-3.0.1. Please
keep me posted on future solutions to this issue if possible. By the
way, I use the deocoders standalone, not with LDM etc.

Thanks a lot,

Dazhong


Robb Kambic wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Dazhong Yin wrote:
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>>Robb,
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>>Thanks for the reply! I commented out those lines and ran syn2nc again.
>>It only generated the netcdf header and gave the following message:
>>    Opening ./2003120600_syn.nc with ncid 3
>>    Minute '60' out of range 0..59 at /bl3/yin/bin/syn2nc line 982
>>Another run I got Monthe '-1" our of range. There is no real data record
>>in the output netcdf file.  Please let me what could be the problem.
>>
>>I don't have much knowledge of  perl. I was wondering why the decoders
>>worked before for me, but it was not at this machine. I used them to
>>decode the historical data( for July 1999, this time data is for Dec,
>>2003)  too.
>>
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>dazhong,
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>there must be something else going on in the decoder, maybe a old decoder
>release will work better for you. how about reverting back to a release
>before the real time checks where coded, say release decoders-3.0.1.tar.Z
>it is in the ftp directory
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>at this point this is probably the quickest resolution.
>
>robb...
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>>Regards,
>>
>>Dazhong
>>
>>Robb Kambic wrote:
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>>On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Unidata Support wrote:
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>>>------- Forwarded Message
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>>>>To: address@hidden
>>>>From: Dazhong Yin <address@hidden>
>>>>Subject: Unidata decoder question
>>>>Organization: University of Arizona
>>>>Keywords: 200412080210.iB82ABlI006739 netCDF decoders
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>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I  am working on to use Unidata decoder to decode observational data. I
>>>have installed perl, netcdf-perl and decoder. Everything seems OK.
>>>However, when I used syn2nc to decode surface observational data, all I
>>>got was the simple error message. I attached files showing the command,
>>>the raw data and the log file. Could you please let me know the possible
>>>reasons? Is it possible that the raw data is not for this decoder? I did
>>>decoding using the this set of decoder for other period  at other Linux
>>>machine. It was OK.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>dazhong,
>>
>>the problem is that the syn2nc decoder has been made more strict on the
>>data it permits to be decoded, so it only decodes data less than 24 hr
>>old. looking at your data, it's older data. i plan in a future release to
>>have a flag to permit older than 24 hour data. in the mean time, you can
>>modify the decoder by commenting out the lines by entering a # at the
>>beginning of the line that restrict the data.
>>
>>in syn2nc
>>
>>lines 248-256  add the # at beginning of line
>>lines 279-296  add the # at beginning of line
>>
>>this should solve your problem
>>
>>robb...
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>>>Thanks a lot,
>>>
>>>Dazhong
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>===============================================================================
>Robb Kambic                               Unidata Program Center
>Software Engineer III                     Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
>address@hidden            WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/
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