Re: motherlode obs

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Doug Schuster wrote:

> Robb,
>
> I've noticed that the software converting surface and upper air
> obs into netCDF files on Motherlode hasn't been working since the
> beginning of October.  It appears to by working for BUOY data, but

Doug,

thank's for noticing that, nobody else mentioned it. i installed the
lastest decoders package and everything appears to be running ok. the new
decoders package defaults to daily type files and a new naming convention.
the motherlode install reverts back to -h hourly file and -n old for old
naming convention. for the latest info goto the Unidata web netCDF decoder
page. i'm bringing this up because we are building a new motherlode
machine and it will be creating daily files and have the new naming
convention. the new motherlode will probably be operational new monday.

robb...

> having problems with METAR, SYNOP,  and UPPER AIR data, not
> generating the expected files, or producing empty files.  The files
> normally show up in
>
> /data/ldm/pub/decoded/netcdf/upperair and
> /data/ldm/pub/decoded/netcdf/surface
>
> Here are the error messages that show up in the log files located in
> those directories:
>
> Month '509' out of range 0..11 at /local/ldm/decoders/metar2nc line 1536
>
> Month '509' out of range 0..11 at /local/ldm/decoders/syn2nc line 942
>
> Opening data/pub/decoded/netcdf/upperair/2005101412_perl_ua.nc with
> ncid 3
> Month '509' out of range 0..11 at /local/ldm/decoders/ua2nc line 918
>
> We've been using this data to populate one of our datasets for the past
> couple of years, and this is the first time I've noticed the problem.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your assistance.  -Doug
>
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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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