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David, i messed up the new ticket system so i don't know if you will receive the response from it. so here's it again. the metar.cdl format is CF compliant, so it has a cdl with the ending .new1, also metar2nc has the new1 ending. the new files are incuded with the distribution. here's the pqact entry: # # metar decoder, creates NetCDF files with new CDL format on a daily basis # formated data/decoded/yyyymmdd_metar.nc DDS|IDS ^S(A....|P....|XUS8.) .... ([0-3][0-9]) PIPE decoders/metar2nc.new1 etc/metar.cdl.new1 data/pub/decoded/netcdf/surface/metar # robb.. On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, David Wojtowicz wrote: > New Ticket: metar.cdl on motherlode? > > Hi, > > Can I get a copy of the current metar.cdl file used with the > metar2nc decoder on motherlode? The ones packaged with the decoder > source don't appear to be exactly what's currently being used. I'd > like local decoding to be consistent with what gets decoded on > motherlode into the Thredds server. > > Thanks! > > > > > David Wojtowicz, Sr. Research Programmer, Sysadmin > Dept of Atmospheric Sciences / Computer Services > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign > address@hidden (217) 333-8390 > > > > > Ticket Details > =================== > Ticket ID: MII-549568 > Department: Support netCDF Decoders > Priority: Normal > Status: Open > Link:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/esupport/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=365 > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================