Re: your request to subscribe to "BUFRLIB support"

Jeff,

I have some questions about bufr tables. Hope you can answer these.

A snippet of your code shows:

C
        IF  ( cborg (1:4) .eq. 'KARP' )  THEN
            bfstyp = 'NC004004'
        ELSE IF  ( cborg (1:4) .eq. 'EGRR' )  THEN
            bfstyp = 'NC004006'
        ELSE
            bfstyp = 'NC004009'
        END IF

It appears that you are using part of the product pattern to load certain 
tables, is that correct?

In doc:
http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/sib/decoders/BUFRLIB/toc/dfbftab/

it mentions that the mnemonic tables need to be loaded according to 
datatype and data subtype. This seems different then your code, can you 
explain this?


In doc:

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/NCEP_BUFR_File_Structure.htm#ASCII_Table

it mentions that the first descriptors in the data refer to what tables 
need to be loaded to decode. How many products follow this syntax?


In doc:

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/data_processing/bufrtab_tabled.htm

In the local classes there are many reference to mnemonic tables that I 
can't find anywhere on the web. The tables are in [] similar to 
[NC003003].  Where can I download these tables?

Thanks,
RObb...


On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Jeff Ator wrote:

> Dear Robb,
>
> We noticed that you recently asked to join our "BUFRLIB support" mailing 
> list.  However, this is a list for use by myself and all of the other folks 
> who collectively maintain the NCEP BUFRLIB software - we use it to receive 
> user inquiries, discuss maintenance issues, respond to bug reports, etc.  I 
> believe you would be better served by instead subscribing to our "BUFRLIB 
> announce" mailing list at address@hidden 
> This is the list we use to notify our users of general announcements, 
> software updates, etc.  You can still post inquiries to the "BUFRLIB support" 
> list, but it's not a list to which you should be directly subscribing.
>
> Best regards,
> -Jeff

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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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